ununderstandable en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + understandable.
Meanings
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Not understandable; that cannot be understood.
But to report an item or sequence of behaviour as radically ununderstandable is to say that it is so inaccessible to any possible explanation[…]
1983, Walter Garrison Runciman, A treatise on social theory:Cameron was for closing the discussion as useless and ununderstandable.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 139:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most ununderstandable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more ununderstandable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
unexplainable · Greek · bottomless · nonunderstandable · fathomless · retruse · inapprehensible · enigmatic · unknowable · ungraspable · incognizable · undecipherable · incomprehensible · inexplicable · incomprehensible · obscure · tenebrose · nonunderstandable · inscrutable · inenubilable · insensible · thick · insoluble · insolvable · unfathomable · Chinese · ununderstandable · abstruse · unintelligible · mysterious · ineffable · dense · impenetrable · undiscoverable