"incomprehensible" meaning in English

See incomprehensible in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˌɪnkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/ [US] Audio: en-us-incomprehensible.ogg [US] Forms: more incomprehensible [comparative], most incomprehensible [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|incomprehensible}} Middle French incomprehensible, {{der|en|la|incomprehensibilis}} Latin incomprehensibilis, {{prefix|en|in|comprehensible}} in- + comprehensible Head templates: {{en-adj}} incomprehensible (comparative more incomprehensible, superlative most incomprehensible)
  1. Impossible or very difficult to understand. Translations (impossible or very difficult to understand): pakuptueshëm (Albanian), ἀκατάληπτος (akatálēptos) (Ancient Greek), անհասկանալի (anhaskanali) (Armenian), незразуме́лы (njezrazumjély) (Belarusian), неразбираем (nerazbiraem) (Bulgarian), непонятен (neponjaten) (Bulgarian), incomprensible (Catalan), 難以理解的 (Chinese Mandarin), 难以理解的 (nányǐ lǐjiě de) (Chinese Mandarin), 費解的 (Chinese Mandarin), 费解的 (fèijiě de) (Chinese Mandarin), nesrozumitelný (Czech), uforståelig (Danish), ubegribelig (Danish), onbegrijpelijk (Dutch), käsittämätön (Finnish), ei ymmärrettävä (Finnish), siansaksa (Finnish), heprea (Finnish), incompréhensible (French), incomprensible (Galician), გაუგებარი (gaugebari) (Georgian), გონებისთვის მიუწვდომელი (gonebistvis miuc̣vdomeli) (Georgian), unverständlich (German), unbegreiflich (German), unfassbar (German), ακατανόητος (akatanóitos) (Greek), ακαταλαβίστικος (akatalavístikos) (Greek), érthetetlen (Hungarian), megfoghatatlan (Hungarian), felfoghatatlan (Hungarian), incomprensibile (Italian), 不可解な (fukakai na) (Japanese), 理解できない (rikai dekinai) (Japanese), ubegripelig (Norwegian Bokmål), ubefattelig (Norwegian Bokmål), ubegripeleg (Norwegian Nynorsk), incompreensible (Occitan), onbejrieplich (Plautdietsch), niezrozumiały (Polish), incompreensível (Portuguese), непоня́тный (neponjátnyj) (Russian), непостижи́мый (nepostižímyj) (Russian), невразуми́тельный (nevrazumítelʹnyj) (Russian), do-thuigsinneach (Scottish Gaelic), incomprensible (Spanish), obegriplig (Swedish), ofattbar (Swedish), di-matingkala (Tagalog), anlaşılmaz (Turkish), незрозумі́лий (nezrozumílyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-incomprehensible-en-adj-bfvG6I3c Disambiguation of 'impossible or very difficult to understand': 99 1
  2. (theology or literary) Which cannot be contained; boundless, infinite. Tags: literary Categories (topical): Theology
    Sense id: en-incomprehensible-en-adj-eDWASTe~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with in- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 82 8 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 26 44 30 Topics: lifestyle, religion, theology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: difficult Hyponyms: arcane, gnomic, vague Related terms: incomprehension, opaque [figuratively], turbid [figuratively], it's all Chinese to me, it's all Greek to me, confusing, indescribable

Noun

IPA: /ˌɪnkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/ [US] Audio: en-us-incomprehensible.ogg [US] Forms: incomprehensibles [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|incomprehensible}} Middle French incomprehensible, {{der|en|la|incomprehensibilis}} Latin incomprehensibilis, {{prefix|en|in|comprehensible}} in- + comprehensible Head templates: {{en-noun}} incomprehensible (plural incomprehensibles)
  1. Anything that is beyond understanding. Translations (anything that is beyond understanding): незрозумі́лий (nezrozumílyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-incomprehensible-en-noun--DWkOlKT

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for incomprehensible meaning in English (15.3kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "comprehensible"
    },
    {
      "word": "understandable"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "incomprehensible"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French incomprehensible",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "incomprehensibilis"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin incomprehensibilis",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "in",
        "3": "comprehensible"
      },
      "expansion": "in- + comprehensible",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "incomprehensible (comparative more incomprehensible, superlative most incomprehensible)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "difficult"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "arcane"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "gnomic"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "vague"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "incomprehension"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "word": "opaque"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "word": "turbid"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "it's all Chinese to me"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "it's all Greek to me"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "confusing"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "indescribable"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904-09, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, published 1962",
          "text": "But this inference, which is supported by the opening of Book I, renders incomprehensible the note \"and I have finished writing this,\" which is included within the dream."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Greg Bear, Heads",
          "text": "He shook his head. 'It's not only undefined, it's incomprehensible. Even the QL is befuddled by it and can't give me straight answers.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Impossible or very difficult to understand."
      ],
      "id": "en-incomprehensible-en-adj-bfvG6I3c",
      "links": [
        [
          "Impossible",
          "impossible"
        ],
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "pakuptueshëm"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "anhaskanali",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "անհասկանալի"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "njezrazumjély",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "незразуме́лы"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "nerazbiraem",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "неразбираем"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "neponjaten",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "непонятен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "incomprensible"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "難以理解的"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "nányǐ lǐjiě de",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "难以理解的"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "費解的"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fèijiě de",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "费解的"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "nesrozumitelný"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "uforståelig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "ubegribelig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "onbegrijpelijk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "käsittämätön"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "ei ymmärrettävä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "siansaksa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "heprea"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "incompréhensible"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "incomprensible"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "gaugebari",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "გაუგებარი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "gonebistvis miuc̣vdomeli",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "გონებისთვის მიუწვდომელი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "unverständlich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "unbegreiflich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "unfassbar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "akatanóitos",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "ακατανόητος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "akatalavístikos",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "ακαταλαβίστικος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "akatálēptos",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "ἀκατάληπτος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "érthetetlen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "megfoghatatlan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "felfoghatatlan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "incomprensibile"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "fukakai na",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "不可解な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "rikai dekinai",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "理解できない"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "ubegripelig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "ubefattelig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "ubegripeleg"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "incompreensible"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "onbejrieplich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "niezrozumiały"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "incompreensível"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "neponjátnyj",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "непоня́тный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nepostižímyj",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "непостижи́мый"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nevrazumítelʹnyj",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "невразуми́тельный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "do-thuigsinneach"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "incomprensible"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "obegriplig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "ofattbar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "di-matingkala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "anlaşılmaz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "nezrozumílyj",
          "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
          "word": "незрозумі́лий"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Theology",
          "orig": "en:Theology",
          "parents": [
            "Philosophy",
            "Religion",
            "All topics",
            "Culture",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 82 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 44 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with in-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969, “The Divine Liturgy of John Chrysostom: Liturgy of Offering”, in Joseph Raya, transl., edited by José de Vinck, Byzantine Daily Worship, Alleluia Press, page 282",
          "text": "Prayer to God the Father: It is fitting and right to sing to You, to bless You, to praise You, to give thanks to You, to worship You in every place of your dominion: for You are God, beyond description, beyond understanding, invisible, incomprehensible, always existing, always the same; You and your only-begotten Son and your Holy Spirit",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Which cannot be contained; boundless, infinite."
      ],
      "id": "en-incomprehensible-en-adj-eDWASTe~",
      "links": [
        [
          "theology",
          "theology"
        ],
        [
          "contain",
          "contain"
        ],
        [
          "boundless",
          "boundless"
        ],
        [
          "infinite",
          "infinite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(theology or literary) Which cannot be contained; boundless, infinite."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle",
        "religion",
        "theology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɪnkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-incomprehensible.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fd/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "fathomless"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "unfathomable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "unintelligible"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "abstruse"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "Chinese"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "dense"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "enigmatic"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "Greek"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "inapprehensible"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "incognizable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "incomprehensible"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "ineffable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "inenubilable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "inexplicable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "impenetrable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "inscrutable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "insoluble"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "insolvable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "mysterious"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "nonunderstandable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "obscure"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "retruse"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "thick"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "undecipherable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "undiscoverable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "unexplainable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "ungraspable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "unknowable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "ununderstandable"
    }
  ],
  "word": "incomprehensible"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "incomprehensible"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French incomprehensible",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "incomprehensibilis"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin incomprehensibilis",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "in",
        "3": "comprehensible"
      },
      "expansion": "in- + comprehensible",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "incomprehensibles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "incomprehensible (plural incomprehensibles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Anything that is beyond understanding."
      ],
      "id": "en-incomprehensible-en-noun--DWkOlKT",
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "nezrozumílyj",
          "sense": "anything that is beyond understanding",
          "word": "незрозумі́лий"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɪnkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-incomprehensible.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fd/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "incomprehensible"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "comprehensible"
    },
    {
      "word": "understandable"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "English 6-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle French",
    "English terms prefixed with in-",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "incomprehensible"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French incomprehensible",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "incomprehensibilis"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin incomprehensibilis",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "in",
        "3": "comprehensible"
      },
      "expansion": "in- + comprehensible",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "incomprehensible (comparative more incomprehensible, superlative most incomprehensible)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "difficult"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "arcane"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "gnomic"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "vague"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "incomprehension"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "word": "opaque"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "word": "turbid"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "it's all Chinese to me"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "it's all Greek to me"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "confusing"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "indescribable"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904-09, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, published 1962",
          "text": "But this inference, which is supported by the opening of Book I, renders incomprehensible the note \"and I have finished writing this,\" which is included within the dream."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Greg Bear, Heads",
          "text": "He shook his head. 'It's not only undefined, it's incomprehensible. Even the QL is befuddled by it and can't give me straight answers.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Impossible or very difficult to understand."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Impossible",
          "impossible"
        ],
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English literary terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Theology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969, “The Divine Liturgy of John Chrysostom: Liturgy of Offering”, in Joseph Raya, transl., edited by José de Vinck, Byzantine Daily Worship, Alleluia Press, page 282",
          "text": "Prayer to God the Father: It is fitting and right to sing to You, to bless You, to praise You, to give thanks to You, to worship You in every place of your dominion: for You are God, beyond description, beyond understanding, invisible, incomprehensible, always existing, always the same; You and your only-begotten Son and your Holy Spirit",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Which cannot be contained; boundless, infinite."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "theology",
          "theology"
        ],
        [
          "contain",
          "contain"
        ],
        [
          "boundless",
          "boundless"
        ],
        [
          "infinite",
          "infinite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(theology or literary) Which cannot be contained; boundless, infinite."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle",
        "religion",
        "theology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɪnkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-incomprehensible.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fd/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fathomless"
    },
    {
      "word": "unfathomable"
    },
    {
      "word": "unintelligible"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "abstruse"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "Chinese"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "dense"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "enigmatic"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "Greek"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "inapprehensible"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "incognizable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "incomprehensible"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "ineffable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "inenubilable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "inexplicable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "impenetrable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "inscrutable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "insoluble"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "insolvable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "mysterious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "nonunderstandable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "obscure"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "retruse"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "thick"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "undecipherable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "undiscoverable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "unexplainable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "ungraspable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "unknowable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:incomprehensible",
      "word": "ununderstandable"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "pakuptueshëm"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "anhaskanali",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "անհասկանալի"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "njezrazumjély",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "незразуме́лы"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nerazbiraem",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "неразбираем"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neponjaten",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "непонятен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "incomprensible"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "難以理解的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "nányǐ lǐjiě de",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "难以理解的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "費解的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fèijiě de",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "费解的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "nesrozumitelný"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "uforståelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "ubegribelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "onbegrijpelijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "käsittämätön"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "ei ymmärrettävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "siansaksa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "heprea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "incompréhensible"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "incomprensible"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gaugebari",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "გაუგებარი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gonebistvis miuc̣vdomeli",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "გონებისთვის მიუწვდომელი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "unverständlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "unbegreiflich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "unfassbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "akatanóitos",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "ακατανόητος"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "akatalavístikos",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "ακαταλαβίστικος"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "akatálēptos",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "ἀκατάληπτος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "érthetetlen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "megfoghatatlan"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "felfoghatatlan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "incomprensibile"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fukakai na",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "不可解な"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rikai dekinai",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "理解できない"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "ubegripelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "ubefattelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "ubegripeleg"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "incompreensible"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "onbejrieplich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "niezrozumiały"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "incompreensível"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neponjátnyj",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "непоня́тный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nepostižímyj",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "непостижи́мый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nevrazumítelʹnyj",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "невразуми́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "do-thuigsinneach"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "incomprensible"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "obegriplig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "ofattbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "di-matingkala"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "anlaşılmaz"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nezrozumílyj",
      "sense": "impossible or very difficult to understand",
      "word": "незрозумі́лий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "incomprehensible"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 6-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle French",
    "English terms prefixed with in-",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "incomprehensible"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French incomprehensible",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "incomprehensibilis"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin incomprehensibilis",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "in",
        "3": "comprehensible"
      },
      "expansion": "in- + comprehensible",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "incomprehensibles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "incomprehensible (plural incomprehensibles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Anything that is beyond understanding."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɪnkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-incomprehensible.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fd/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/En-us-incomprehensible.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nezrozumílyj",
      "sense": "anything that is beyond understanding",
      "word": "незрозумі́лий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "incomprehensible"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.