(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."
Unintelligible
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The PTs' and OTs' self-assessments differed statistically on pairs such as Strong-Weak, Intelligent-Unintelligent, and Aggressive-Passive, with the PTs' mean scores being higher than the OTs'.
(2) It was found that ten out of thirteen were written at a level of complexity unintelligible to up to 60% of the general public.
(3) A committee of MPs last week criticised Uber for creating “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” contracts to ensure that its drivers remained self-employed.
(4) Six patients between the ages of 17 and 32 years presented with unusual sleep-walking epidodes characterized by screaming or unintelligible vocalizations; complex, often violent automatisms; and ambulation.
(5) The more complex a system, the more unintelligible and impenetrable is the map of possible side effects.
(6) Lew never speaks about himself, and you don't have to be to a graphologist to tell that his loopy, unintelligible signature indicates that he does not want to be known.
(7) Spart harangues the ear with gobbledegook intelligible to the splinterists of the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean People’s Front, but unintelligible to anyone else.
(8) You’re articulate, you’re obviously not unintelligent, but you’re in custody at the moment and have [a choice] to accept the [charge] summaries as read today.” Rosie Batty sat in the front row of the gallery and held her head in her hands as she listened to the recording, flanked by a member of her legal team.
(9) An auditory and acoustic analysis was performed of the voice production of 24 children between 5 and 8 years of age with unintelligible speech and 24 children without speech or language deficits matched for age.
(10) A misarticulation was especially likely to result in unintelligibility on the most difficult passage, although not all unintelligible words on that passage were attributable to phonemic errors.
(11) Delayed emergence of intelligibility, or frankly unintelligible speech, often signify the presence of a major disturbance of language, overall cognitive development, or hearing.
(12) He classified material likely to affect patients adversely as puzzling or unintelligible, alarming, apparently insulting or objectionable, or sensitive information from or about others.
(13) ENWs are unusual episodes of ambulation, with unintelligible speech, screaming, and complex, often violent, behavior that responds to anticonvulsants.
(14) Children who could not sustain phonation had speech that was consistently judged unintelligible.
(15) Yes, if we do that in an unintelligent way of course you can lose jobs.
(16) "When you gather intelligence in such an unintelligent way; if for example you sweep people up who you know are innocent, and it is in these documents; and then mistreat them horribly, you are not going to get reliable intelligence.
(17) Noting the number of times – 16 – a reporter was forced to write “unintelligible” in the transcript of Trump’s infamous interview with AP, Meyers was struck that “Trump’s answers are literally just mad libs now.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon wished first lady Melania Trump a happy birthday: “She plans to celebrate with her loved ones – and Donald.” The couple planned to celebrate as they always do: “Making sure Donald has something to unwrap too so he doesn’t feel left out.” Fallon also mentioned former presidential candidate Chris Christie giving Trump a B grade on his first 100 days, as well as an A on immigration, and a C on healthcare.
(18) The children with unintelligible speech had significantly more signs of abnormal prephonatory tuning and abnormal phonatory modulation than the control children.
(19) A committee of MPs has lambasted Uber’s contracts with drivers as “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” as the company attempts to ensure its drivers remain self-employed.
(20) It all fits with the 1960s context Capaldi mentioned, but the maze of unintelligible calculations is also reminiscent of Sherlock (the two shows share a showrunner in Moffat).