Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being illegible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being illegible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
characteristic orquality of beingillegible ; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered
Etymologies
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Examples
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A kind of illegibility, though a different kind, stole over Mr
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A kind of illegibility, though a different kind, stole over Mr
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Complaints that "some of the writing of the Pusrawi doctor's report cannot be comprehended because of" illegibility "are hardly convincing, for doctors handwriting are noted for their sometimes illegible scrawl but that does not mean overall what he says cannot be understood!
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Complaints that "some of the writing of the Pusrawi doctor's report cannot be comprehended because of" illegibility "are hardly convincing, for doctors handwriting are noted for their sometimes illegible scrawl but that does not mean overall what he says cannot be understood!
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Do they even take into account that he has poor handwriting, so what they perceive to be spelling mistakes may actually just be illegibility?
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Do they even take into account that he has poor handwriting, so what they perceive to be spelling mistakes may actually just be illegibility?
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Getting Upper: Graphic Designers and Artists Reconsider the Alphabet charges twenty-six designers with re-imagining a letter from the alphabet, using the illegibility and deconstructive nature of graffiti as their starting point.
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In one letter, written when Hawthorne was still a teenager, he asks his mother what she would think of him becoming an author, playfully noting "indeed I think the illegibility of my handwriting is very authorlike."
Carolyn Vega: Collecting Hawthorne: (Not) Only a Woman's Hair
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Getting Upper: Graphic Designers and Artists Reconsider the Alphabet charges twenty-six designers with re-imagining a letter from the alphabet, using the illegibility and deconstructive nature of graffiti as their starting point.
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The show smartly offers visitors a booklet with transcriptions of all letters on view, a low-tech remedy for the perennial illegibility of such exhibits.
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