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unintelligible

[uhn-in-tel-i-juh-buhl]

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adjective

not intelligible; not capable of being understood.

Origin:
1610–20; un-¹ + intelligible

Related forms

un·in·tel·li·gi·bil·i·ty, un·in·tel·li·gi·ble·ness, noun

un·in·tel·li·gi·bly, adverb

Can be confused: unintelligent, unintelligible.

Synonyms
incomprehensible, baffling, undecipherable.

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Example Sentences

They were red, orange and blue, and more or less unintelligible unless you knew how to read them.

They were either rudimentary drawings or text-heavy transcriptions of his unintelligible prose.

So my guess is that these forms are unintelligible because that helps justify the absurd price.

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They were red, orange and blue, and more or less unintelligible unless you knew how to read them.

They were either rudimentary drawings or text-heavy transcriptions of his unintelligible prose.

So my guess is that these forms are unintelligible because that helps justify the absurd price.

It had a loud microphone attached to the side door with an unintelligible recording about the price of the fruit.

As to the translation, even catching a completely unintelligible but organized signal would be a world shaking triumph.

Their conversation is a burbling, unintelligible stream.

The result is to scramble up the letters in the outgoing message so that it is unintelligible.

Modernism is useless, meaningless, unintelligible crap.

Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible.

Sometimes she would be so distraught at work that she would repeat unintelligible nursery rhymes.

Unintelligible dialects are sometimes combined into one language if they share a literature or other cultural heritage.

Then more bodies turn up, and then there is an unintelligible ending.

Completely unintelligible announcements kept coming from loudspeakers.

Myers also appears as his own father, speaking in an unintelligible accent and sometimes wearing kilts.

Much of the acting is amateurish, and the sound is so poor that some of the dialogue is unintelligible.

During some short intervals, words and phrases become unintelligible.

Theater” sets, thick accents and mixed motives combine to make some scenes of this business soap opera almost unintelligible.

The samples themselves are alternately provocative, musical, unintelligible and somewhat vulgar.

The blood drains from your face as you read that first audit report, which is so poorly structured as to be unintelligible.

We knew they always were good for an hour of colorful interviews, with unintelligible chanting in the background.

Wainwright is not careful, he swallows syllables, and the words become unintelligible.

Some of the speeches are intentionally speeded up to the point of becoming unintelligible.

Yorke's vocals into unintelligible stray syllables.

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World English Dictionary

unintelligible (ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlɪdʒɪb^əl)

—*adj*
	not able to be understood; incomprehensible

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Word Origin & History

unintelligible

1616, "incapable of being understood," from un- (1) "not" + intelligible.

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