Thesaurus:incomprehensible

Thesaurus

incomprehensible

English

Adjective

Sense: difficult or impossible to be understood

Synonyms

• 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

• comprehensible    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• arcane    [⇒ thesaurus]
• gnomic
• vague    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• difficult    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• opaque    [⇒ thesaurus] (figuratively)
• turbid (figuratively)
•   —
• it's all Chinese to me
• it's all Greek to me

See also

• Thesaurus:confusing
• Thesaurus:indescribable

Further reading

• “519. unintelligibility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “incomprehensible” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.