unreadable
not readable; undecipherable; scribbled: His scrawl was almost unreadable.
not interesting to read; dull; tedious; an unreadable treatise.
extraordinarily difficult to read or comprehend; obscure; incomprehensible: an unreadable dream; an unreadable expression.
Origin of unreadable
1Other words from unreadable
- un·read·a·bil·i·ty, un·read·a·ble·ness, noun
- un·read·a·bly, adverb
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How to use unreadable in a sentence
Conversely, terrible writing on page one (the case with several exciting mega-bestsellers) renders something unreadable for me.
Hamilton would soak the cardboard packaging of the EPO until the label was unreadable.
Lance Armstrong’s Teammate Tells All: ‘The Secret Race’ By Tyler Hamilton | The Daily Beast | September 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe handwriting on the short note is a combination of odd angled block letters and an unreadable signature.
Their books tried hard to be edgy and hipper-than-thou, but ended up being an unreadable mess instead.
I thought about that quip later in the interview when Doyle offered the opinion that James Joyce was nearly unreadable.
Graduates that have been in use a long time, especially for measuring alkalies, become unreadable.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | VariousHere two tremendous patches of ink left some words that followed quite unreadable.
The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) | Charles James LeverOn the other hand, Cabbalistic works become almost unreadable on account of the prevalence of Semitic over German words.
Most of the book is altogether unreadable from any human point of view, as I feel only too well in my deluge of proofs.
The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 | William JamesIt is unreadable, and to quote his own sensible words, ‘It is useless to criticise what nobody reads.’
Obiter Dicta | Augustine Birrell
British Dictionary definitions for unreadable
/ (ʌnˈriːdəbəl) /
illegible; undecipherable
difficult or tedious to read
Derived forms of unreadable
- unreadability or unreadableness, noun
- unreadably, adverb
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