unintelligible

Speech parts

1. unintelligible - Adjective

2. unintelligible - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

hard or impossible to understand

poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

opaque inscrutable unexplainable confused ambiguous obscure mysterious vague confusing indistinguishable cryptic enigmatic incoherent incomprehensible impenetrable

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Antonyms

intelligible crystal clear simple clear lucid limpid

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Phrases with the word

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Examples

unintelligible speech Source: Internet

A Bajan speaker may be completely unintelligible to an English speaker from another country. Source: Internet

Although Old English is the direct ancestor of modern English, it is unintelligible to contemporary English speakers. Source: Internet

Although the written characters remained relatively consistent for the last two thousand years, the pronunciation and grammar in different regions has developed to an extent that the varieties of the spoken language are often mutually unintelligible. Source: Internet

At the time, half of her face was normal, but the other half was horribly misshapen and skeletal, causing her speech to be nearly unintelligible. Source: Internet

According to police, a man walked into a local Metro PCS store and frightened a female employee with “unintelligible” statements. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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