unintelligible

C2 Topic:Describing Qualities
US /ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/
adj Freq #19339

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise

    Unintelligible speech.

  2. 2
    adj

    Not intelligible; unable to be understood.

    And indeed, my lord, there are so many passages in your writing in this controversy with me, which for their construction, as well as otherwise, are so unintelligible to me, that if I should be so unmannerly as to measure your understanding by mine, I should not know what to think of them.

  3. 3
    adj

    not clearly understood or expressed

Thesaurus

Synonyms
2 adj · not intelligible; unable to... inscrutableunexplainable
3 adj · not clearly understood or... obscure
Opposites

Etymology

From un- + intelligible.

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