incomprehensible
adjective /ɪnˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbl/
/ɪnˌkɑːmprɪˈhensəbl/
- incomprehensible (to somebody) impossible to understand
synonym unintelligible无法理解的;难懂的 - 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。
Topics Languagec1- 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。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- remain
- …
- completely
- totally
- utterly
- …
- to
词源late 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’). - Some application forms can be incomprehensible to ordinary people.