The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
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Incomprehensible
//ɪnˌkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l//
Synonyms for "incomprehensible" (156 found)
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limitlessmarvelousmeasurelessmiraculousmissedmysteriousmystifyingno end ofnuminousoccultopaqueoutlandishparadoxicalpassing strangepast comprehensionperpetualperplexingphenomenalprodigiousprofound
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Translations
53 translations across 33 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- pakuptueshëm adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀκατάληπτος adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Armenian
1 entries- անհասկանալի adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Belarusian
1 entries- незразуме́лы adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Bulgarian
2 entries- непонятен adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- неразбираем adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Catalan
1 entries- incomprensible adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 費解的 /费解的 adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- 難以理解的 /难以理解的 adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Czech
1 entries- nesrozumitelný adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Danish
2 entries- ubegribelig adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- uforståelig adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Dutch
1 entries- onbegrijpelijk adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Finnish
4 entries- ei ymmärrettävä adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- heprea adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- käsittämätön adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- siansaksa adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
French
1 entries- incompréhensible adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Galician
1 entries- incomprensible adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Georgian
2 entries- გაუგებარი adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- გონებისთვის მიუწვდომელი adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
German
3 entries- unbegreiflich adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- unfassbar adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- unverständlich adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Greek
2 entries- ακαταλαβίστικος adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- ακατανόητος adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Hungarian
3 entries- felfoghatatlan adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- megfoghatatlan adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- érthetetlen adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Indonesian
2 entries- tdk terpahamkan adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- yg tdk dpt dimengerti adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Italian
1 entries- incomprensibile adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Japanese
2 entries- 不可解な adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- 理解できない adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ubefattelig adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- ubegripelig adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- ubegripeleg adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Occitan
1 entries- incompreensible adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- onbejrieplich adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Polish
1 entries- niezrozumiały adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Portuguese
1 entries- incompreensível adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Russian
3 entries- невразуми́тельный adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- непоня́тный adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- непостижи́мый adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- do-thuigsinneach adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Spanish
2 entries- incomprehensible adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- incomprensible adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Swedish
2 entries- obegriplig adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- ofattbar adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Tagalog
1 entries- di-matingkala adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Turkish
1 entries- anlaşılmaz adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
Ukrainian
2 entries- незрозумі́лий adj (impossible or very difficult to understand)
- незрозумі́лий noun (anything that is beyond understanding)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Kirby's quintessentially Japanese cuteness is almost incomprehensible to his American audience, who satirize him as a dark and gloomy character constantly, almost as a reflex.
Source: tatoeba (717557)
Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.
Source: tatoeba (1539944)
It's incomprehensible, I know.
Source: tatoeba (2262710)
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