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How to use unreadable in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Unreadable means not written clearly enough to be deciphered. Example: “The scratched CD is unreadable.”

Examples of unreadable by meaning

adjectiveNot written clearly enough to be deciphered.

  • a machine that cut up secret documents into small unreadable fragments

adjectiveMaking an unpleasant reading experience, e.g. because it is dull or upsetting.

  • an unreadable book

adjectiveNot able to be accessed or played by some technical device.

  • The scratched CD is unreadable.

More sentences with unreadable

  • The doctor's scrawled signature was almost unreadable.From the entry scrawled
  • The mathematically rigorous texts, on the other hand, are unreadable for the non- specialist.2013, Peter Collier, A Most Incomprehensible Thing: Notes Towards a Very Gentle Introduction to the Mathematics of Relativity…. From the entry goldilocks
  • Peano gave full credit to Peirce for the notation and declared Frege’s notation unreadable.2011 August 8, John F. Sowa, “Peirce’s Tutorial on Existential Graphs”, in Semiotica, 186:1-4, 345-394. From the entry Peano
  • It's such cross-purpose my heart craves, These guests on old Twelfth Night, Their runish, unreadable moil Of prints, the barrowed creche Awaiting thaw.2011, Marly Youmans, The Throne of Psyche. From the entry runish
  • If you write once on a sheet of paper, it can be read, but when you scribble over and over, the script becomes unreadable.2000, Jalaluddin Rumi, Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion. From the entry blackenedness
  • Let us admit that without the proper clues the gospels are, to a modern educated person, nonsensical and incredible, whilst the apostles are unreadable.1915 December (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Androcles and the Lion. Preface on the Prospects of Christianity.”, in Androcles and…. From the entry plain sailing
  • Jed S., the MIT student who took my poetry class at Wellesley and presented his poems on long scrolls of computer paper, the all-capitals dot matrix lines nearly unreadable.2011, Robert Pinsky, “An Alphabet of My Dead [from Jersey Rain, (2000)]”, in Selected Poems, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux…. From the entry dot matrix

Meaning of unreadable

  1. adjective Not written clearly enough to be deciphered.
  2. adjective Making an unpleasant reading experience, e.g. because it is dull or upsetting.
  3. adjective Not able to be accessed or played by some technical device.

Full definition of unreadable

Questions about unreadable in a sentence

How do you use unreadable in a sentence?
Unreadable is used as an adjective. For example: “The scratched CD is unreadable.”
What is a short sentence with unreadable?
“an unreadable book”
What does unreadable mean?
Unreadable means not written clearly enough to be deciphered.

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