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UNCOMPREHENSIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncomprehensible mean? 

UNCOMPREHENSIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNCOMPREHENSIBLE has 1 sense:

1. difficult to understandplay

  Familiarity information: UNCOMPREHENSIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNCOMPREHENSIBLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Difficult to understand

Synonyms:

incomprehensible; uncomprehensible

Context example:

the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible

Similar:

dark; obscure (marked by difficulty of style or expression)

enigmatic; enigmatical; puzzling (not clear to the understanding)

unfathomable (incapable of being fully understood)

impenetrable (impossible to understand)

indecipherable (impossible to determine the meaning of)

lost; missed (not caught with the senses or the mind)

opaque; unintelligible (hard or impossible to understand)

Also:

unclear (not clear to the mind)

incomprehensible; inexplicable (incapable of being explained or accounted for)

unintelligible (poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise)


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