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Incomprehensible vs Impenetrable - What's the difference?

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Incomprehensible is a related term of impenetrable.


As adjectives the difference between incomprehensible and impenetrable

is that incomprehensible is incomprehensible while impenetrable is impenetrable.

incomprehensible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Impossible or very difficult to understand.
  • * Greg Bear, Heads , 1990
  • He shook his head. 'It's not only undefined, it's incomprehensible. Even the QL is befuddled by it and can't give me straight answers.'
  • * Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth , 1938
  • But this inference, which is supported by the opening of Book I, renders incomprehensible the note "and I have finished writing this," which is included within the dream.

    Synonyms

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    Antonyms

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    impenetrable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not penetrable.
  • The fortress is impenetrable , so it cannot be taken.
  • * '>citation
  • The avalanche spread and stopped, locking everything it carried into an icy cocoon. It was now a jagged, virtually impenetrable pile of ice, longer than a football field and nearly as wide.
  • (figuratively) ; inscrutable.
  • Business jargon makes this document impenetrable , I can't understand it.

    Antonyms

    * penetrable