Synonyms for incomprehensible
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Unfathomable
unfathomable, inscrutable, inexplicable, obscure, unintelligible, mysterious, enigmatic, impenetrable, unknowable, abstruse formal, indecipherable, undecipherable, unaccountable, inconceivable, bewildering, mystifying, puzzling, unimaginable, dark, unexplainable, cryptic, paradoxical
Definitions
- adj. 1
Impossible or very difficult to understand.
Related words
- Word family
- incomprehensibleness
- Is a kind of
- difficult
Example sentences
- inexplicable There was something inexplicable about the story.
- unfathomable It is just unfathomable to even think about.
- unintelligible Rodrigo is unintelligible in Berber pronunciation.
- inscrutable She looked at him with an inscrutable expression.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| incomprehensible | rising | |
| inexplicable | rising | |
| unfathomable | rising | |
| unintelligible | steady | |
| inscrutable | rising | |
| inapprehensible | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- dark1
- 7 letters
- obscure2, cryptic2
- 8 letters
- puzzling3, abstruse2
- 9 letters
- enigmatic4
- 10 letters
- mysterious4, unknowable4, mystifying4
- 11 letters
- paradoxical5, bewildering4, inscrutable4
- 12 letters
- inexplicable5, impenetrable5, unimaginable6, unfathomable5
- 13 letters
- inconceivable5, unaccountable5, unexplainable5
- 14 letters
- unintelligible6, indecipherable, undecipherable
- 15 letters
- inapprehensible
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (obscure2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- incompréhensible
- Italiano
- incomprensibile
- Español
- incomprensible