to be beyond sb's ken
1beyond someone's ken — beyond someone’s ken phrase impossible for someone to understand because they do not have enough knowledge or experience The floods are a powerful warning that we are messing with forces beyond our ken. Thesaurus: complicated and difficult to… …
2beyond one's ken — Outside the limits of one s knowledge • • • Main Entry: ↑ken …
3beyond someone's ken — impossible for someone to understand because they do not have enough knowledge or experience The floods are a powerful warning that we are messing with forces beyond our ken …
4beyond one's ken — adjective Beyond one’s knowledge or understanding …
5be beyond someone's ken — be beyond (someone s) ken if a particular subject is beyond your ken, you do not understand it or know much about it. Don t talk to me about finance it s beyond my ken. Most of Derrida s work is beyond the ken of the average student …
6ken — /ken/, n., v., kenned or kent, kenning. n. 1. knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one s ken. 2. range of sight or vision. v.t. 3. Chiefly Scot. a. to know, have knowledge of or about, or be acquainted with… …
7ken — ken1 [ ken ] noun uncount beyond someone s ken impossible for someone to understand because they do not have enough knowledge or experience ken ken 2 [ ken ] verb intransitive or transitive SCOTTISH to know someone or something …
8ken — I UK [ken] / US noun [uncountable] beyond someone s ken II UK [ken] / US verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms ken : present tense I/you/we/they ken he/she/it kens present participle kenning past tense kent UK [kent] / US or kenned past… …
9ken — [OE] Once a widespread verb throughout English, ken is now restricted largely to Scotland, having taken over the semantic territory elsewhere monopolized by know. In Old English it actually meant not ‘know’ but ‘make known’; it was the causative… …
10ken — [OE] Once a widespread verb throughout English, ken is now restricted largely to Scotland, having taken over the semantic territory elsewhere monopolized by know. In Old English it actually meant not ‘know’ but ‘make known’; it was the causative… …
