Incredibly vs Incomprehensible - What's the difference?
incredibly | incomprehensible |
(manner) In an incredible manner; not to be believed.
(degree) To a great extent; extremely.
(speech act) (Used to note the surprising or hard-to-believe nature of what is being said and suggest that it is nevertheless true).
Impossible or very difficult to understand.
* Greg Bear, Heads , 1990
* Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth , 1938
As an adverb incredibly
is (manner) in an incredible manner; not to be believed.As an adjective incomprehensible is
incomprehensible.incredibly
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Adverb
(en adverb)incomprehensible
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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.