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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Being such that understanding or comprehension is difficult or impossible; incomprehensible: unintelligible remarks; an unintelligible prose passage.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not intelligible; not capable of being understood.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. not intelligible; unable to be understood

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise
  2. adj. not clearly understood or expressed

Etymologies

  1. un- +‎ intelligible (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “The second explains - in as much as an explanation of the unintelligible is even possible - why the publishing industry behaves as it does.”

    [Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen

  • “Notebooks full of unintelligible notes scattered in unintelligible heaps.”

    How I Know I’m a Writer at SF Novelists

  • “No. However, it was Bush's fault that his education cuts have resulted in unintelligible posts authored by, well, you.”

    Hillary Clinton almost out of the red

  • “Olympic Sculpture Park: "A treat For all the senses" Where we are treated to unknown hunks of stuff in unintelligible shapes, panhandlers (PC = misunderstood independent business people), significant Seattle smells-urine, feces, unwashed, mentally deranged even more freaked out than normal.”

    Sound Politics: Better Name Needed For Olympic Sculpture Park

  • “The Munchkins are pear-shaped beings that speak in unintelligible buzzing voices.”

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat

  • “At around the age of 14 (to our dismay) all the black kids segregated themselves into their own group and where they had been speaking normal English they began to speak in unintelligible (to us) patois.”

    British Racists Must Be Condemned

  • “Having lived in two foreign countries France and Moldova, it's very common for English-speaking expats to incorporate vocabulary from the host language into their speech while maintaining an English pronunciation that could render the word unintelligible to native speakers.”

    BLEG

  • “The other stuff that's around here is mostly in unintelligible fragments, so I'm not real concerned about that.”

    May 20th, 2005

  • “The Greeks dubbed foreigners "barbarians" because, to Greek ears, they brayed "bar, bar" in unintelligible tongues; South Africans claim to hear "kwere, kwere" when immigrants open their mouths.”

    South Africans Only

  • “Skeld was not far off, and Herger spoke loudly, so I recognized that Skeld was to overhear us; yet Herger spoke in Latin, unintelligible to Skeld; so perhaps there was some other reason I do not know.”

    Eaters Of The Dead

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