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- Dictionaryunintelligible/ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlɪdʒɪbl/
adjective
- 1. impossible to understand: "dolphin sounds are unintelligible to humans" Similar
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not able to be understood: He muttered something unintelligible. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Difficult to understand. abstrusely. ambiguity. ambiguously. esoterically. fathomlessly. garble. it's all Greek to me idiom. labyrinthine. lost. non-intuitive. obscurely. unreadable. verbiage. verbosely. verbosity. wasted on someone idiom.
noun. or less commonly unintelligibleness. unintelligibly. ˌən-in-ˈte-lə-jə-blē. adverb. muttering unintelligibly. Synonyms. impenetrable. incomprehensible. unfathomable. ungraspable. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of unintelligible in a Sentence. uttered only a string of unintelligible murmurs.
Unintelligible language is impossible to understand, for example because it is not written or pronounced clearly, or because its meaning is confused or complicated. He muttered something unintelligible.
Something unintelligible is difficult to understand, either because the room is too noisy or because the unintelligible thing is too quiet or confusing. We use our intelligence to understand things, and something intelligible is easy to understand.
Unintelligible definition: not intelligible; not capable of being understood.. See examples of UNINTELLIGIBLE used in a sentence.
(of speech or writing) not clear enough to be understood. (Definition of unintelligible from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of unintelligible. unintelligible. On one hand, people don't want to destroy what is (unintelligible) a holy book. From NPR.
Definition of unintelligible adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; incomprehensible: unintelligible remarks; an unintelligible prose passage. un′in·tel′li·gi·bil′i·ty n. un′in·tel′li·gi·bly adv.
Unintelligible definition: Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; incomprehensible.
UNINTELLIGIBLE meaning: impossible to understand. Learn more.
