Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; incomprehensible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
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- adjective not
intelligible ; unable to be understood
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise
- adjective not clearly understood or expressed
Etymologies
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Examples
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No. However, it was Bush's fault that his education cuts have resulted in unintelligible posts authored by, well, you.
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The second explains - in as much as an explanation of the unintelligible is even possible - why the publishing industry behaves as it does.
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Notebooks full of unintelligible notes scattered in unintelligible heaps.
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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
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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
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The Munchkins are pear-shaped beings that speak in unintelligible buzzing voices.
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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.
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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.
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The other stuff that's around here is mostly in unintelligible fragments, so I'm not real concerned about that.
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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.
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