Meaning & use
Incomprehensibly
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In a way that is impossible or extremely difficult to understand.
See it in a sentence
The instructions were written so incomprehensibly that nobody could assemble the furniture.
He mumbled incomprehensibly after being woken suddenly.
A note on using this word
Built from comprehend plus the negating prefix in-, this word describes something beyond the reach of understanding, not merely difficult.
Words with a similar meaning
unintelligiblyconfusingly
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Words with an opposite meaning
clearlycomprehensibly
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