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nonunderstandable

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  • adjective Not understandable.

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non- +‎ understandable

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Examples

  • He knew full well, from his Spencer, that man can never attain ultimate knowledge of anything, and that the mystery of beauty was no less than that of life - nay, more that the fibres of beauty and life were intertwisted, and that he himself was but a bit of the same nonunderstandable fabric, twisted of sunshine and star-dust and wonder.

    Chapter 23 2010

  • She realized that she herself was no more than a mote caught up in this tangled, nonunderstandable conflict of many motes.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • She realized that she herself was no more than a mote caught up in this tangled, nonunderstandable conflict of many motes.

    Chapter 10 1913

  • He knew full well, from his Spencer, that man can never attain ultimate knowledge of anything, and that the mystery of beauty was no less than that of life - nay, more that the fibres of beauty and life were intertwisted, and that he himself was but a bit of the same nonunderstandable fabric, twisted of sunshine and star-dust and wonder.

    Chapter 23 1908

  • Such a state of mind was surprising, quite nonunderstandable.

    Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • making odd hand or finger movements that are not typically dyskinetic, performing inconspicuous repetitive actions (e.g., making a series of clicking sounds before or after speaking, tapping or automatically touching objects while walking about), mutism, psychomotor retardation, or speech that becomes progressively less voluble until it becomes a nonunderstandable mumble (prosectic speech).

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • Fluent, nonunderstandable speech with poor comprehension suggests Wernicke’s aphasia.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

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