incomprehensible

incomprehensible
    adj 1: incapable of being explained or accounted for;
           "inexplicable errors"; "left the house at three in the
           morning for inexplicable reasons" [syn: {inexplicable},
           {incomprehensible}] [ant: {explicable}]
    2: difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing
       about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A. Einstein
       [syn: {incomprehensible}, {uncomprehensible}] [ant:
       {comprehendible}, {comprehensible}]
    

Incomprehensible \In*com`pre*hen"si*ble\, a. [L.
   incomprehensibilis: cf. F. incompr['e]hensible. See {In-}
   not, and {Comprehensible}.]
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   1. Not capable of being contained within limits.
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            An infinite and incomprehensible substance.
                                                  --Hooker.
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   2. Not capable of being comprehended or understood; beyond
      the reach of the human intellect; inconceivable.
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            And all her numbered stars that seem to roll
            Spaces incomprehensible.              --Milton.
      -- {In*com`pre*hen"si*ble*ness}, n. --
      {In*com`pre*hen"si*bly}, adv.
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106 Moby Thesaurus words for "incomprehensible":
      Greek to one, abstruse, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive,
      ambiguous, antic, arcane, baffling, beguiling, bewildering,
      beyond understanding, boundless, countless, cryptic, dark, deep,
      endless, enigmatic, eternal, exceptional, exhaustless,
      extending everywhere, extraordinary, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic,
      fascinating, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, immense,
      impenetrable, impossible, inarticulate, incalculable, incognizable,
      incoherent, inconceivable, incredible, indecipherable,
      inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable,
      inscrutable, interminable, interminate, limitless, marvelous,
      measureless, miraculous, mysterious, mystifying, no end of,
      numinous, obscure, occult, opaque, outlandish, passing strange,
      past comprehension, perpetual, perplexing, phenomenal, prodigious,
      puzzling, rambling, rare, recondite, remarkable, sensational,
      shoreless, strange, striking, stupendous, sumless, termless,
      unaccountable, unbelievable, unbounded, uncircumscribed,
      unconnected, undecipherable, unexpected, unfathomable, unheard-of,
      unimaginable, unintelligible, unique, universal, unknowable,
      unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed,
      unprecedented, unsearchable, untold, without bound, without end,
      without limit, without measure, without number, wonderful,
      wondrous