incomprehensible (to somebody) impossible to understand 无法理解的;难懂的synonym unintelligible- Some application forms can be incomprehensible to ordinary people.有些申请表格一般人可能看不懂。🔊🔊
- He found his son's actions totally incomprehensible.他感觉他儿子的行为完全理解不了。🔊🔊
opposite comprehensibleExtra Examples- She found his accent virtually incomprehensible.她发现几乎听不懂他的口音。
- From a child's point of view, adult behaviour is often just as incomprehensible.从孩子的角度来看,成人的行为经常难以理解。
- Their dialect is incomprehensible to most speakers of Standard English.他们的方言对大多数讲标准英语的人很难懂。
Topics Languagec1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbsadverb- completely
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prepositionSee full entry Word Originlate Middle English (earlier than comprehensible): from Latin incomprehensibilis, from in- ‘not’ + comprehensibilis (from comprehens- ‘seized, comprised’, from the verb comprehendere, from com- ‘together’ + prehendere ‘grasp’).