What's the difference between incomprehensible and uncomprehensive?
Incomprehensible
Definition:
(a.) Not capable of being contained within limits.
(a.) Not capable of being comprehended or understood; beyond the reach of the human intellect; inconceivable.
Example Sentences:
(1) To a generation of young Germans, raised under the crushing, introspective guilt of postwar Germany , the sight of such facile antics was simply incomprehensible.
(2) Kerry added that it would have been “offensive and incomprehensible” to leave Bergdahl in Afghanistan, where Obama is quickly winding down the US military presence – a process he recently said would be complete by the end of 2016.
(3) Old people and young people have always regarded one another with suspicion and incomprehension.
(4) An attorney for Crawford’s family described their decision as “absolutely incomprehensible”.
(5) It does get to be a bit of an atmosphere of an extended family of people who have this process in common that is such a major part of their life – and yet almost incomprehensible to the outside world.” Like all family gatherings, things can get emotional.
(6) It is no longer possible to assess the quality of most products on the basis of physical examination, and labels often carry information that is incomprehensible to lay persons.
(7) According to Freud our actions and behaviour are often unconsciously motivated and frequently incomprehensible for ourselves.
(8) All the interviews supported the notion of an arbitrary norm for pay, which almost all firms felt was grossly and inappropriately high … The general view of search firms is that a lower norm would not materially affect what happens.” One headhunter said: “I think there are an awful lot of FTSE 100 CEOs who are pretty mediocre.” Another added: “I think that the wage drift over the past 10 years, or the salary drift, has been inexcusable, incomprehensible, and it is very serious for the social fabric of the country.” The findings are being made public just as an analysis by the High Pay Centre thinktank shows that the average pay of a chief executive – including pensions, share options and bonuses – stands at about £4.6m.
(9) FDA delay in approval of propranolol for essential hypertension is totally incomprehensible.
(10) Admittedly, it was not as bad as Miles' frankly incomprehensible hair, to say nothing about the self-harm-inducing scene in which they all "threw shapes" to the Manic Street Preachers, but relative improvement is not exactly a recommendation.
(11) Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat deputy leader, added that he found it incomprehensible that an inquiry had not been mounted by the government into whether there had been a breach of the code.
(12) For five nights, Saturday to Wednesday, the Ferguson city and St Louis county police departments betrayed hostility, incomprehension and fear as they confronted protesters, heedless that the militarised response had stoked anger and radicalism over Brown's death.
(13) Utterly incomprehensible,” he told reporters in Canberra.
(14) The new analyses of text that were introduced in the 1960s have rendered the subject, at its cutting edge, incomprehensible to all but the initiated.
(15) In fact, about 3 hours before and 15 minutes after the third dose of flumequine (2 tablets of 400 mg), this makes the total dose taken over 12 hours is equal to 400 x 4 = 1,600 mg, the patient developed an intense discomfort with blurred vision accompanied by nausea, followed by a state of restlessness and incomprehensible speech.
(16) Pyne on Saturday called on the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, to join the government in strongly condemning the "incomprehensible" behaviour of the students who were protesting on Friday against proposed cuts to higher education funding.
(17) "When she came out with some particularly garbled bit of folklore and was met with the usual amusement and incomprehension, she retorted 'It may be an old fallacy, but it's true!'
(18) The public have waited long enough and will find it incomprehensible that the report is not being published more rapidly than the open-ended timetable you have now set out.
(19) "Their exclusion from the government's shortlist of technologies being assessed is utterly incomprehensible," said FOE Cymru director Gordon James.
(20) "The grief of a stillbirth is unlike any other form of grief: the months of excitement and expectation, planning, eager questions, and the drama of labour – all magnifying the devastating incomprehension of giving birth to a baby bearing no signs of life."
Uncomprehensive
Definition:
(a.) Unable to comprehend.
(a.) Incomprehensible.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the diagnosis of preoedipal disturbances it should be worked out, that the test-results are not inconceivable formality and uncomprehension.
(2) Phonetic distortion of spoken language could reduce responses in superior temporal gyrus neurons, but also the slight changes in discharge rate of middle temporal neurons could be absent during distorted and uncomprehensible speech sounds.