incomprehensible

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incomprehensible - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Incomprehensible \In*com`pre*hen"si*ble\, a. [L.
     incomprehensibilis: cf. F. incompr['e]hensible. See In-
     not, and Comprehensible.]
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     1. Not capable of being contained within limits.
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              An infinite and incomprehensible substance.
                                                    --Hooker.
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     2. Not capable of being comprehended or understood; beyond
        the reach of the human intellect; inconceivable.
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              And all her numbered stars that seem to roll
              Spaces incomprehensible.              --Milton.
        -- In*com`pre*hen"si*ble*ness, n. --
        In*com`pre*hen"si*bly, adv.
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incomprehensible - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  incomprehensible
      adj 1: incapable of being explained or accounted for;
             "inexplicable errors"; "left the house at three in the
             morning for inexplicable reasons" [syn: inexplicable,
             incomprehensible] [ant: explicable]
      2: difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing
         about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A. Einstein
         [syn: incomprehensible, uncomprehensible] [ant:
         comprehendible, comprehensible]

incomprehensible - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "incomprehensible":
     Greek to one, abstruse, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive,
     ambiguous, antic, arcane, baffling, beguiling, bewildering,
     beyond understanding, boundless, countless, cryptic, dark, deep,
     endless, enigmatic, eternal, exceptional, exhaustless,
     extending everywhere, extraordinary, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic,
     fascinating, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, immense,
     impenetrable, impossible, inarticulate, incalculable, incognizable,
     incoherent, inconceivable, incredible, indecipherable,
     inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable,
     inscrutable, interminable, interminate, limitless, marvelous,
     measureless, miraculous, mysterious, mystifying, no end of,
     numinous, obscure, occult, opaque, outlandish, passing strange,
     past comprehension, perpetual, perplexing, phenomenal, prodigious,
     puzzling, rambling, rare, recondite, remarkable, sensational,
     shoreless, strange, striking, stupendous, sumless, termless,
     unaccountable, unbelievable, unbounded, uncircumscribed,
     unconnected, undecipherable, unexpected, unfathomable, unheard-of,
     unimaginable, unintelligible, unique, universal, unknowable,
     unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed,
     unprecedented, unsearchable, untold, without bound, without end,
     without limit, without measure, without number, wonderful,
     wondrous