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misintelligible

misintelligible adjective: liable to be misunderstood.

Adjective

misintelligible (comparative more misintelligible, superlative most misintelligible)

  1. (archaic) Liable to be misunderstood.
    • To the same man I would give the Bible, though a very large part would be worse than unintelligible, for it would be misintelligible […]1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on the Works of Robert Robinson”, in Literary Remains
    • […] already in Scotland it is a barbarism transplanted from the filthy vocabulary of attorneys, locally called writers; secondly, because in England it is not even intelligible, and, what is worse still, sure to be misintelligible.1847-1848, Thomas De Quincey, "Protestantism", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

Forms of misintelligible

comparativemore misintelligible
superlativemost misintelligible

Questions about misintelligible

What does misintelligible mean?
Misintelligible means liable to be misunderstood.
What part of speech is misintelligible?
Misintelligible is an adjective.

Words near misintelligible in the dictionary

  1. misintegrating
  2. misintegration
  3. misintegrations
  4. misintelligence
  5. misintelligences
  6. misintelligible
  7. misintend
  8. misintended
  9. misintending
  10. misintends
  11. misintention

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