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unintelligible
Word definitions for unintelligible in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not intelligible; unable to be understood.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "incapable of being understood," from un- (1) "not" + intelligible . Related: Unintelligibly .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a series of unintelligible syllables ▪ Her note was practically unintelligible . ▪ I liked the music but the lyrics were completely unintelligible . ▪ Joe muttered something unintelligible , clasping his head in his ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; "unintelligible speech" [ant: intelligible ] not clearly understood or expressed [syn: opaque ]
Usage examples of unintelligible.
They are not only clumsy and childish designs ill executed, but they are rendered unintelligible to all save the initiated in such hieroglyphics, by offering an elaborate ground-work of type, antitype, and symbol, on which the artist probably spent a large part of his strength.
The Prince had, after our first interview, observed with regard to every point of my story on which I had been carefully silent a delicacy of reserve very unusual among Martialists, and quite unintelligible to his Court and officers.
He was busy constructing another long, polysyllabic and largely unintelligible chat on the nature of the universe.
There was an inarticulate howl, and then what sounded like a war of wildcats, as the other kzinti snarled words unintelligible through the din.
He snarled something unintelligible, reached for a control, and the screen went blank again.
The strange, squiggly white characters on a black background were quite unintelligible to die assembled company.
Your jargon of turneps and Hanover rats is to me perfectly unintelligible.
And he thus learned the meaning of those symbols, which, to the uninitiated, were but a maze of unintelligible figures.
His voice died into unintelligible mutterings, and his gray unreverend head sank upon the table.
This phrase is probably unintelligible to the untheatrical portion of the community, which may now be said to be all the world except the actors.
They asked questions on all sorts of subjects, and my answers, perfectly unintelligible to myself, were all held as Divine by them.
The collection, such as it was, was in the Avestan dialect, which had grown partially obsolete and unintelligible.
Behaviourism itself, indeed, had been originally a kind of inverted Puritan faith, according to which intellectual salvation involved acceptance of a crude materialistic dogma, chiefly because it was repugnant to the self-righteous, and unintelligible to intellectuals of the earlier schools.
Before Kerrie could answer, Gabby responded to Maureen in the same unintelligible language.
The shrews were never still, hopping, jumping, dancing and gabbling on in an unintelligible manner.