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synonyms for unintelligible

  • illegible
  • impenetrable
  • incomprehensible
  • indecipherable
  • meaningless
  • opaque
  • unfathomable
  • vague
  • Greek
  • ambiguous
  • equivocal
  • fathomless
  • inarticulate
  • incognizable
  • incoherent
  • indistinct
  • inexplicit
  • jumbled
  • muddled
  • obscure
  • tenebrous
  • uncertain
  • unclear
  • unexplicit
  • ungraspable
  • unknowable
  • unreadable
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antonyms for unintelligible

MOST RELEVANT
  • clear
  • comprehensible
  • decipherable
  • fathomable
  • intelligible
  • understandable
  • meaningful
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How to use unintelligible in a sentence

In Fortenberry’s case, however, prosecutors argued that they could not redact sensitive information without rendering the evidence unintelligible.
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Outside is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, or misdirected entries, all of which will be disqualified.
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Last school year, schools had to close entire classrooms when one student tested positive, but the latest guidance is a lot more complicated – and almost unintelligible now when it comes to individual circumstances.
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Amazon says that was a privacy choice as well as a technical consideration because the rotating blades make so much noise, it would render any audio unintelligible anyway.
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The "spirit writing" consists of unmeaning, unintelligible scribbling scrawls, and very rarely containing any letters or words.
SECOND EDITION OF A DISCOVERY CONCERNING GHOSTSGEORGE CRUIKSHANK
Her bewilderment was complete: the more she wished to appear to understand him the more unintelligible his remarks became.
SUMMEREDITH WHARTON
She repeated this several times, and gradually dwindled off into unintelligible mutterings.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNE
A drummer soon came with a message from the besiegers, but a message which was utterly unintelligible to the besieged.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
He clings tenaciously to his unintelligible language, and is quite certain that he is superior to the whole human race.
SPANISH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYL. HIGGIN AND EUGNE E. STREET
The key of this last having been lost, their true sentiments often became unintelligible and, consequently, useless to us.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIER
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WORDS RELATED TO UNINTELLIGIBLE

  • clear as dishwater
  • cryptic
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • enigmatic
  • enigmatical
  • equivocal
  • inconclusive
  • indefinite
  • indeterminate
  • inexplicit
  • muddy
  • multivocal
  • obscure
  • opaque
  • polysemous
  • puzzling
  • questionable
  • tenebrous
  • uncertain
  • unclear
  • unintelligible
  • vague
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