Incomprehensible vs Inscrutable - What's the difference?
incomprehensible | inscrutable |
Impossible or very difficult to understand.
* Greg Bear, Heads , 1990
* Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth , 1938
Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret.
* 2007 , Tracy Jordan'' (Tracy Morgan), ''30 Rock :
As adjectives the difference between incomprehensible and inscrutable
is that incomprehensible is impossible or very difficult to understand while inscrutable is difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret.As a noun inscrutable is
one who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.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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* * ----inscrutable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.
- She called my vanity license plate inscrutable ! 'ICU81MI'? Hilarious!