Incomprehensible vs Impenetrable - What's the difference?
incomprehensible | impenetrable | Related terms |
Impossible or very difficult to understand.
* Greg Bear, Heads , 1990
* Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth , 1938
Not penetrable.
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(figuratively) ; inscrutable.
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)- 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.'
- 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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* * ----impenetrable
English
Adjective
(-)- The fortress is impenetrable , so it cannot be taken.
- 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.
- Business jargon makes this document impenetrable , I can't understand it.