incomprehensible
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++in·com·pre·hen·si·ble /ɪnˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbəl $ -ˌkɑːm-/ ●○○ adjective UNDERSTANDdifficult or impossible to understand 难懂的；不可理解的 legal documents full of incomprehensible jargon 满是难懂术语的法律文件 I find your attitude quite incomprehensible. 我觉得你的态度很难理解。incomprehensible to His accent made his speech incomprehensible to me. 他的口音使得很多听众听不懂他说的话。 —incomprehensibly adverb —incomprehensibility /ɪnˌkɒmprɪhensəˈbɪləti $ -ˌkɑːm-/ noun [uncountable]
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incomprehensible• His English was incomprehensible.• There was the pain of light in her eyes and far off voices whose words were incomprehensible.• The logic of that agreement is completely incomprehensible.• Discourse which underestimates the degree of existing knowledge becomes boring; discourse which overestimates it becomes incomprehensible.• For this was reality, as durable as it was crucial, as incontrovertible as it was incomprehensible.• What is incomprehensible, however, is the loss of status that goes with part time work.• thick, incomprehensible legal documents• There was some clicking, and then the muffled sound of a human voice making its usual incomprehensible noises.• Three walls were covered by blackboards scrawled with incomprehensible symbols and equations.• It is incomprehensible that a tragedy like this could be joked about.• The leaflet was written in jargon that would have been totally incomprehensible to anyone outside the profession.• The radical other-worldliness of such people seemed incomprehensible to the authorities.in·com·pre·hen·si·ble adjectiveChineseSyllable
impossible or understand difficult Corpus to
incomprehensible
in‧com‧pre‧hen‧si‧ble /ɪnˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbəl, ɪnˌkɒmprɪˈhensɪbəl $ -ˌkɑːm-/
adjective
difficult or impossible to understand:
legal documents full of incomprehensible jargon
I find your attitude quite incomprehensible.
incomprehensible to
His accent made his speech incomprehensible to me.
—incomprehensibly adverb
—incomprehensibility /ɪnˌkɒmprɪhensəˈbɪləti, ɪnˌkɒmprɪhensɪˈbɪləti $ -ˌkɑːm-/ noun [uncountable]
in‧com‧pre‧hen‧si‧ble /ɪnˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbəl, ɪnˌkɒmprɪˈhensɪbəl $ -ˌkɑːm-/
adjectivedifficult or impossible to understand:
incomprehensible to
—incomprehensibly adverb
—incomprehensibility /ɪnˌkɒmprɪhensəˈbɪləti, ɪnˌkɒmprɪhensɪˈbɪləti $ -ˌkɑːm-/ noun [uncountable]