Thesaurus:incomprehensible
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: difficult or impossible to be understood
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- abstruse
- Chinese
- dense
- enigmatic
- fathomless
- Greek [⇒ thesaurus]
- inapprehensible
- incognizable
- incomprehensible
- ineffable
- inenubilable (formal, literary)
- inexplicable
- impenetrable
- insensible
- inscrutable
- insoluble
- insolvable
- mysterious [⇒ thesaurus]
- nonunderstandable
- obscure
- retruse (obsolete)
- thick
- undecipherable
- undiscoverable
- unexplainable
- unfathomable
- ungraspable
- unintelligible
- unknowable
- ununderstandable
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Various
[edit]- opaque [⇒ thesaurus] (figuratively)
- turbid (figuratively)
- —
- it's all Chinese to me
- it's all Greek to me
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “519. unintelligibility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “incomprehensible” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.