| Main Entry: | classical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning ancient culture |
Synonyms: |
Attic, Augustan, Doric, Grecian, Greek, Hellenic, Homeric, Ionic, Latin, Roman, Virgilian, academic, belletristic, bookish, canonic, canonical, classic, classicistic, humanistic, scholastic |
| Notes: | for classic, assume the meaning 'of the highest class' and 'typical, excellent as an example; timeless' and for classical 'pertaining to or characteristic of Greek or Roman antiquity or civilization' |
| Main Entry: | drivel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foolish talk |
Synonyms: |
Greek, babble, balderdash, blather, bunk, double-talk, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, hooey, jabber, nonsense, poppycock, prating, rot*, rubbish*, tripe, twaddle |
Antonyms: |
sense |
| Main Entry: | incomprehensible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not understandable |
Synonyms: |
Delphic, Greek, baffling, beats me, beyond comprehension, beyond one's grasp, clear as mud, cryptic, enigmatic, fathomless, impenetrable, incognizable, inconceivable, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying, obscure, opaque, over one's head, perplexing, puzzling, sibylline, unclear, unfathomable, ungraspable, unimaginable, unintelligible, unknowable |
Antonyms: |
comprehensible, fathomable, intelligible, understandable |
| Main Entry: | unintelligible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not understandable |
Synonyms: |
Greek, ambiguous, equivocal, fathomless, illegible, impenetrable, inarticulate, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, indecipherable, indistinct, inexplicit, jumbled, meaningless, muddled, obscure, opaque, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, unexplicit, unfathomable, ungraspable, unknowable, unreadable, vague |
Antonyms: |
comprehensible, intelligible, meaningful, understandable |
| Main Entry: | double Dutch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incomprehensible talk or writing |
Synonyms: |
Choctaw, Greek, babble, baloney, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, hokum, hooey, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, rubbish |
| Main Entry: | uncomprehensible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incomprehensible |
Synonyms: |
Delphic, Greek, baffling, beats me, beyond comprehension, beyond one's grasp, clear as mud, cryptic, enigmatic, fathomless, impenetrable, incognizable, inconceivable, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying, obscure, opaque, over one's head, perplexing, puzzling, sibylline, unclear, unfathomable, ungraspable, unimaginable, unintelligible, unknowable |