different between incomprehensible vs tenebrose

English

Etymology

From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??nk?mp???h?ns?b?l/

Adjective

incomprehensible (comparative more incomprehensible, superlative most incomprehensible)

1. impossible or very difficult to understand.
   • 1904-09, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, published 1962

     But this inference, which is supported by the opening of Book I, renders incomprehensible the note "and I have finished writing this," which is included within the dream.

   • 1990, Greg Bear, Heads,

     He shook his head. 'It's not only undefined, it's incomprehensible. Even the QL is befuddled by it and can't give me straight answers.'

Synonyms

• fathomless, unfathomable, unintelligible; See also Thesaurus:incomprehensible

Antonyms

• comprehensible, understandable; See also Thesaurus:comprehensible

Related terms

• incomprehension

Translations

Noun

incomprehensible (plural incomprehensibles)

1. Anything that is beyond understanding.

Further reading

• incomprehensible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• incomprehensible in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1314, borrowed from Latin incomprehensibilis.

Adjective

incomprehensible m or f (plural incomprehensibles)

1. incomprehensible

Descendants

• ? English: incomprehensible

References

English

Etymology

From Latin tenebr?sus, from tenebra (“darkness”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?n?b???s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?n?b?o?s/

Adjective

tenebrose (comparative more tenebrose, superlative most tenebrose)

1. Dark; tenebrous.
2. (figuratively) obscure; obtuse; incomprehensible.
3. (figuratively) morally, culturally or mentally benighted; backward; uncivilized.
4. (figuratively) gloomy.

See also

• tenebrous

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “tenebrose”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• beerstone

Italian

Adjective

tenebrose

1. feminine plural of tenebroso

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /te.ne?bro?.se/, [t??n??b?o?s??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /te.ne?bro.se/, [t??n??b???s??]

Adjective

tenebr?se

1. vocative masculine singular of tenebr?sus

References

• tenebrose in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press