incomprehensibly

/ˌɪn.kɒm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪb.li/

adverb

In an incomprehensible manner.

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Meanings

adverbincomprehensibly (comparative more incomprehensibly, superlative most incomprehensibly)

comparative more incomprehensibly · superlative most incomprehensibly

  1. In an incomprehensible manner.

    She is "one of the most enwomaned women I've seen, a brunette of eternity incomprehensibly beautiful"

    2008, Baz Dreisinger, Near Black: White-To-Black Passing in American Culture, Univ of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 83
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    There [in the new heaven] shall we, indissolubly, with all the choir of heaven pass our eviternity of bliss, in lauding and praising the incomprehensibly-glorious Majesty of our Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier; in perpetual Hallelujahs to him that sits upon the throne.

    1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “[The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […].] Section VIII. The Re-union of the Body to the Soul, both Glorified.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC, 2nd book (Of the Souls of Men), page 484

    Nameless and formless the Spirit within shines forth, unconditioned and everlasting. What name is befitting the soul? How shall Infinite Effulgence be manifested? Too great a light blinds the senses. Too great a truth is too exhilarating for the student. The boundless, infinite Sentience, incomprehensibly dimensioned in Being and Intelligence, rests Unseen and Unthinkable in the shore of His Own omnipresent and superomnipresent consciousness.

    1911, Walter Winston Kenilworth, Thoughts on Things Psychics, page 51

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  7. Proto-Italic*kom
  8. Proto-Italic*kom-
  9. Latincon-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
  13. Proto-Italic*prai
  14. Proto-Italic*prai-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*gʰed-
  16. Proto-Indo-European*gʰnédti
  17. Proto-Italic*hendō
  18. Proto-Italic*praiɣendō
  19. Latinprehendō
  20. Latincomprehendō
  21. Latincomprehēnsibilis
  22. Latinincomprehēnsibili
  23. Middle Frenchincomprehensible
  24. Englishincomprehensible
  25. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  26. Proto-Germanic*līką
  27. Englishincomprehensibly

From incomprehensible + -ly.

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Translations

Catalan incomprensiblement
  • incomprensiblementin an incomprehensible manner
Finnish käsittämättömästi
  • käsittämättömästiin an incomprehensible manner
French incompréhensiblement
  • incompréhensiblementin an incomprehensible manner
Hungarian érthetetlenül
  • érthetetlenülin an incomprehensible manner
Italian incomprensibilmente
  • incomprensibilmentein an incomprehensible manner
Portuguese incompreensivelmente
  • incompreensivelmentein an incomprehensible manner
Russian непонятно, непостижимо
  • непонятно (neponjatno)in an incomprehensible manner
  • непостижимо (nepostižimo)in an incomprehensible manner
Spanish incomprensiblemente
  • incomprensiblementein an incomprehensible manner
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