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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unreadable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The inclusion of so many figures and statistics makes the article virtually unreadable.
▪ The photocopy was poorly produced and almost unreadable.
▪ The text was dense and unreadable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His expression was unreadable beneath what was now almost a full beard.
▪ Nathan's eyes were unreadable as they looked deep into hers.
▪ She was met by Wootton who handed her a message with an unreadable smile.
▪ Such statements are published at full-page length in the unreadable media.
▪ The best known of them was Dornford Yates, author of the now unreadable but once hugely read Berry and Co stories.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unreadable

1787, of written material, "dull, distasteful," from un- (1) "not" + readable (adj.). Meaning "illegible" is from 1830.

Wiktionary
unreadable

a. 1 That cannot be read or is not easy to read. 2 Not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading.

WordNet
unreadable

adj. not easily deciphered; "indecipherable handwriting" [syn: indecipherable, unclear, undecipherable]

Usage examples of "unreadable".

Make-good-a fi-ee placement of an advertisement used to replace one that ran incorrectly, was unreadable or was placed at the wrong time.

Seoulpa soldiers stared at Argent, his obsidian gaze totally unreadable.

The name of the man who discovered the use of cacao must be written in some early chapter of the history of man, but it is blurred and unreadable: all we know is that he was an inhabitant of the New World and probably of Central America.

He checked the passport and blinked as his own face stared up at him, only shaved and without the dreadlocks, surrounded by a sea of unreadable foreign type.

Her fosterlings and ladies followed her, and only Melenna cast an unreadable glance over her shoulder at Vanyel before trailing off in the wake of the others.

I started paying attention again, I noticed Kroun studying me, his own face unreadable.

I pulled the topee from my face and sat up, looking into the dark unreadable eyes of the maharaja.

Breck wore a grin while Trager was unreadable, but both had dressed for the evening, sporting long capes trimmed with wolf fur.

She looked out across the Panteon Nacional, away to the mountains, her dark eyes unreadable.

Quint schooled his face into the unreadable expression he used when a political opponent made a point that was technically correct but which Quint had no intention of granting him.

She glanced at her recep again, trying to judge how he was handling their presence, but his face was unreadable.

She stood regarding him, her face unreadable in its halo of backlit hair.

Though its eyes were alien and unreadable, there was no mistaking the energy and effort it was expending to keep as far away from the three uninvited visitors as possible.

And she realized suddenly that he had sensed the effort behind her eager scrutiny, even though his own eyes remained whimsically unreadable.

She realized Hana and Ai were staring in the same way at Akita, with opaque, unreadable eyes.