incomprehensible
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Synonyms
impenetrable, unfathomable, ungraspable, unintelligible
Antonyms
fathomable, intelligible, understandable
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The first 30 to 45 minutes are dominated by the sound of helicopters, with explosions, opera, and incomprehensible radio voices regularly adding to the cacophony. — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, "Apocalypse Now Final Cut," 31 Aug. 2019 As the rate of land clearance reaches one and a half football fields a minute -- the statistics for the damage done to the forest emulate the incomprehensible mystery of its vanishing beauty -- many analysts fear a tipping point is nearing. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, "'All you can see is death.' The regions reeling from the Amazon rainforest fires," 25 Aug. 2019 One of Orwell鈥檚 signature passages was thus rendered incomprehensible. — David Streitfeld, New York Times, "Paging Big Brother: In Amazon鈥檚 Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite," 19 Aug. 2019 Also remember that people are really excited to support authors, and also people have their own often incomprehensible reactions! — Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, "The First Book," 24 July 2019 The searing images and incomprehensible atrocities at our border today are animating America鈥檚 political emotion. — David Carroll, Quartz, "China embraces its surveillance state. The US pretends it doesn鈥檛 have one," 23 July 2019 Traders鈥攁lmost all men鈥攔oam an enclosure of padded leather seats and trade using hand-signals incomprehensible to the casual observer. — David Hodari, Joe Wallace, WSJ, "Hey Traders, It鈥檚 2019鈥擭o More Drinking on the Job," 14 June 2019 How people can see something happen and completely disregard facts in order to pursue a salacious but false version of events is incomprehensible, but, honestly, not all that surprising. — SI.com, "Addressing the Media Coverage & Massive Overreaction to Paul Pogba Missing a Penalty," 21 Aug. 2019 For most Israelis, the idea that Jews would go into an Arab neighborhood and kidnap a boy was incomprehensible. — Washington Post, "New HBO series tackles the anatomy of a Jerusalem hate crime," 16 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'incomprehensible.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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