English dictionary: words starting with incom - page 1

adverb

In a way that shows someone does not have the ability to do something as it should be done

Usage examples:

The exam was incompetently designed and administered., he managed the department so incompetently t…

noun

An incompetent person.

Usage examples:

The tanker captain was a known incompetent

adjective

Not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully.

Usage examples:

A forgetful and utterly incompetent assistant

adjective

Unable to be completed.

Usage examples:

So if extrapolation from our own case is involved in the idea of what it is like to be a bat, the e…

adjective

Not having all the necessary or appropriate parts.

Usage examples:

Incomplete carvings of cattle

adverb

In an partial or unfinished manner.

Usage examples:

Most specimens are incompletely preserved

noun

The fact or state of not having some parts, or of not being finished

Usage examples:

They said nothing about the incompleteness of the information., he realised her value, his own inco…

noun

The state of lacking something or of having failed to complete something.

Usage examples:

Humans with their profound sense of incompletion

noun

The state of being impossible or extremely difficult to understand

Usage examples:

He worried about the document's sheer incomprehensibility., the film is chopped and edited to the p…

adjective

Not able to be understood; not intelligible.

Usage examples:

A language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office

adverb

In a way that is impossible or extremely difficult to understand

Usage examples:

The election remains almost incomprehensibly close., he mumbled incomprehensibly.

noun

Failure to understand something.

Usage examples:

They gave him a look of complete incomprehension

adjective

Not able to be compressed.

Usage examples:

I do understand that and, as i say, we are trying to compress the incompressible.

adjective

Unable to be calculated or estimated.

Usage examples:

Incomputable riches