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Incomprehensible vs Nonsensical - What's the difference?

incomprehensible | nonsensical |

As adjectives the difference between incomprehensible and nonsensical

is that incomprehensible is incomprehensible while nonsensical is without sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish; irrational; preposterous.

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.

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    nonsensical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish; irrational; preposterous.