unintelligible

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

Common collocations

• unintelligible speech Adjective + noun

From un- + intelligible.

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