ununderstandable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + understandable.
Adjective
[edit]ununderstandable (comparative more ununderstandable, superlative most ununderstandable)
- Not understandable; that cannot be understood.
- Synonyms: incomprehensible, nonunderstandable; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
- 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:
- Cameron was for closing the discussion as useless and ununderstandable.
- 1983, Walter Garrison Runciman, A treatise on social theory:
- But to report an item or sequence of behaviour as radically ununderstandable is to say that it is so inaccessible to any possible explanation […]