Indelible vs Incomprehensible - What's the difference?
indelible | incomprehensible |
having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface
incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten
* 2014 , (Ruzwana Bashir), "
incapable of being annulled
* Sprat
Impossible or very difficult to understand.
* Greg Bear, Heads , 1990
* Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth , 1938
As adjectives the difference between indelible and incomprehensible
is that indelible is having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface while incomprehensible is incomprehensible.indelible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This ink spot on the contract is indelible .
- This stain on my shirt is indelible .
- That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim", The Guardian , 29 August 2014:
- During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
- They are endued with indelible power from above.
Synonyms
* unerasableAntonyms
* delible * (difficult to delete) uninsertableincomprehensible
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.