Word Finder - incomprehensible

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Anything that is beyond understanding.

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Impossible or very difficult to understand.

It's incomprehensible, but the tipster keeps doing it.

Their laughter and their mutually incomprehensible remarks in two languages could be heard.

The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us.

Out of this Nothing or incomprehensible essence the world of ideas or primordial causes is eternally created.

His main result is that God is infinite, and as such, incomprehensible; that his attributes of goodness, knowledge and power are credited to him only by inference from their effects; that this inference is logically valid and sufficient for human thought.

The only language of the lower class is pidgin-English - quite incomprehensible to the newcomer from Great Britain, - but a large proportion of the inhabitants are highly educated men who excel as lawyers, clergymen, clerks and traders.

In the latter sense it was chiefly used by the Gnostic sects to denote those eternal beings or manifestations which emanated from the one incomprehensible and ineffable God.

From the opening there were two major problems with The Third Policeman primarily the voice over was utterly incomprehensible.

The more he knows, the more remains incomprehensible.

There was a stir in the ranks of the soldiers and it was evident that they were all hurrying--not as men hurry to do something they understand, but as people hurry to finish a necessary but unpleasant and incomprehensible task.

There was time for quiet evenings, some jazz and classical music in the Dean's quarters, country and western in Fred's and some totally incomprehensible noise from the small room where Martha Boyd and her boom box now dwelt.

Butler says nothing about incomprehensible mysteries, and protests that reason is the only ground we have to proceed upon.

But sentiment of any "high-flying" description - to use the cant word of his time - was quite incomprehensible to him, or rather never presented itself as a thing to be comprehended.

In one of his incomprehensible freaks he set off for Lyons, and, after abandoning his companion in an epileptic fit, returned to Annecy to find Madame de Warens gone.

The Divine Unity is incomprehensible, and can be known only through its Manifestations; to recognize the Manifestation of the cycle in which he lives is the supreme duty of man.

In the XVIIIth Dynasty he has too many names and few are clearly identifiable, while the numbers are incomprehensible.

He is the true universal, all-containing and incomprehensible.

The design of the work was to show, by an appeal mainly to the tribunal of Scripture, that there are no facts or doctrines of the "Gospel," or the "Scriptures," or "Christian revelation," which, when revealed, are not perfectly plain, intelligible and reasonable, being neither contrary to reason nor incomprehensible to it.

Quinn was great at this given his past incomprehensible endeavors.

First spend 20 minutes talking loudly to him in incomprehensible jargon.

So I find it totally abhorrent and incomprehensible when I hear about the dreadful cruelty and neglect inflicted on some animals.

Some of what he has to say is all but incomprehensible, but still garners a hearty ' Amen ' from the congregation.

In the radical interpreter Davidson is looking for the means of translation between mutually incomprehensible languages.

Someone from the North, for example, might find a Londoner almost incomprehensible.

The remarks... are completely incomprehensible for us " .

The natives are those under the age of 30 who find the Old Country simply incomprehensible!

Nor should they obscure the costs of borrowing by making charges incomprehensible.

A complex narrative style renders the plot largely incomprehensible for the first 45 minutes.

Such a notion seems incomprehensible to most of us nowadays.

At its worse, the sufferer's speech will become completely incomprehensible.

Also, what I find incomprehensible is the failure to comment on the fates of the ships.

The Critical Review and the Quarterly feared that the extensive use of Scots would prove incomprehensible to an English audience.

All too often it becomes pompous, with little meaning and purpose because it is largely incomprehensible to those who read it.

Anyway, this lot got to the end of the street, shouted a few incomprehensible taunts at me, then wandered off.

Unfortunately, this Opinion was so turgid as to be almost incomprehensible and did little to clarify the specific points at issue.

As a consequence of this, the defined boundaries of the notion of " activity " are so wishy-washy as to be totally incomprehensible.

Five years have passed since then, and already I, with my petty understanding, begin to see clearly why she had to die, and in what way that death was but an expression of the infinite goodness of the Creator, whose every action, though generally incomprehensible to us, is but a manifestation of His infinite love for His creatures.

Natasha did not understand what he was saying any more than he did himself, but she felt that his incomprehensible words had an improper intention.

They understood that the saddles and Junot's spoon might be of some use, but that cold and hungry soldiers should have to stand and guard equally cold and hungry Russians who froze and lagged behind on the road (in which case the order was to shoot them) was not merely incomprehensible but revolting.

But even if we admitted that Kutuzov, Chichagov, and others were the cause of the Russian failures, it is still incomprehensible why, the position of the Russian army being what it was at Krasnoe and at the Berezina (in both cases we had superior forces), the French army with its marshals, kings, and Emperor was not captured, if that was what the Russians aimed at.

For us that movement of the peoples from west to east, without leaders, with a crowd of vagrants, and with Peter the Hermit, remains incomprehensible.

While Tony splutters something incomprehensible about five tests, Peter Caruana, Gibraltar 's chief minister, outlines his plans.

There isn't any right or wrong way to express how you are feeling, but writing down your thoughts and sharing the events of the birth and death of your child may help you deal with the incomprehensible pain you are experiencing.

Her comments were often incomprehensible and she was often seen swaying or leaning with her eyes half-closed.

The cut scenes are incomprehensible, long, and painfully boring.

They believe this show of incomprehensible power means that Klaatu is a hostile threat and they shoot him.

Retaliation is swift and brutal - a human colony is destroyed and we find ourselves in a war with an enemy that is completely incomprehensible to us.

Perhaps the distributor thought the accent would be incomprehensible to American audiences? or that the 'unfamiliar' sound just wouldn't play well to American listeners?

Philosophers have a reputation for being boring, speaking in incomprehensible jargon, and in general being drab.

The book is the preferred introduction to the Guide for Americans, since the radio series features fast dialog in (to Americans) almost incomprehensible accents.