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undeciphering

undeciphering is the present participle and gerund of undecipher.

Meaning of undecipher

Verb

undecipher (third-person singular simple present undeciphers, present participle undeciphering, simple past and past participle undeciphered)

  1. (rare, transitive) To decipher.
    • I am sure your Lordship is concerned in the former, and I think also in the latter; a good part whereof was written in characters, and cyphers set for the names. He that did undecypher it is a most honest man, and is very confident he hath hit it right.1644 March 3, Robert King, “[Letter to the Marquess of Ormonde]”, in Thomas Carte, editor, Collection of Letters, Written by the Kings Charles I and II […] and Other Great Men during the Troubles of...

Adjective

undeciphering (not comparable)

  1. That does not decipher.
    • Somewhere I would find a Chairman of the Board or a President who would[…]let me found a magnificent cold realm of people naked under their own moons and suns, smiling their ambiguous smiles to the undeciphering sky, going down to their unready deaths or lives because they had somehow managed to...1968, Daniel Stern, The Suicide Academy
    • Every night before going to bed, she would drink herself into her present undeciphering state. Then she would only half know what was happening and her fears and disgust would be diluted too.1981, Bernice Rubens, Birds of passage, page 178

Questions about undeciphering

What does undeciphering mean?
Undeciphering means that does not decipher.
What is undeciphering the present participle and gerund of?
Undeciphering is the present participle and gerund of undecipher.
What part of speech is undeciphering?
Undeciphering is an adjective.

Words near undeciphering in the dictionary

  1. undecipher
  2. undecipherability
  3. undecipherable
  4. undecipherably
  5. undeciphered
  6. undeciphering
  7. undeciphers
  8. undecision
  9. undecisive
  10. undecisively
  11. undecisiveness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undeciphering (page history and authors); undecipher (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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