inapprehensible
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Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Of the universal Aeons there are two shoots, without beginning or end, springing from one Root, which is the Power invisible, inapprehensible Silence.
From Simon Magus by George Robert Stow Mead
Unapprehen′sible, inapprehensible; Unapprehen′sive, not apprehensive or fearful: not intelligent.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Not merely, therefore, is the phenomenon inexplicable to you, but the very nature of it is inapprehensible by you.
From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald
He seemed to be passing through the universe of ideas like a comet—erratic, inapprehensible, untraceable.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
