Synonyms: incomprehensible, uncomprehensible
Definition: difficult to understand
Usage: the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible- A. Einstein
Definition: marked by difficulty of style or expression
Usage: much that was dark is now quite clear to me; those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure
Similar words: enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling
Definition: not clear to the understanding
Usage: I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later; prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries
Similar words: unfathomable
Definition: impossible to come to understand
Similar words: impenetrable
Definition: impossible to understand
Usage: impenetrable jargon
Similar words: indecipherable
Definition: impossible to determine the meaning of
Usage: an indecipherable message
Definition: not caught with the senses or the mind
Usage: words lost in the din
Similar words: opaque, unintelligible
Definition: not clearly understood or expressed
Synonyms: inexplicable, incomprehensible
Definition: incapable of being explained or accounted for
Usage: inexplicable errors; left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons
Similar words: inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying, cryptic, cryptical, deep
Definition: of an obscure nature
Usage: the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms; a deep dark secret; the inscrutable workings of Providence; in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life- Rachel Carson; rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands
Similar words: paradoxical, self-contradictory
Definition: seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
Usage: it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking
Similar words: unaccountable, unexplainable
Definition: not to be accounted for or explained
Usage: perceptible only as unaccountable influences that hinder progress; an unexplainable fear
Similar words: unexplained
Definition: having the reason or cause not made clear
Usage: an unexplained error