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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.
adjective. un· in· tel· li· gi· ble ˌən-in-ˈte-lə-jə-bəl. Synonyms of unintelligible. : unable to be understood or comprehended : not intelligible. a song with unintelligible lyrics. unintelligible jargon. … including parenthetical translations of the words and phrases he knew would be unintelligible to contemporary readers. John N. Green.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
