unintelligible
/ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/
unintelligible adjective: not intelligible; unable to be understood.
Adjective
unintelligible (comparative more unintelligible, superlative most unintelligible)
- Not intelligible; unable to be understood.
- And indeed, my lord, there are so many passages in your writing in this controversy with me, which for their construction, as well as otherwise, are so unintelligible to me, that if I should be so unmannerly as to measure your understanding by mine, I should not know what to think of them.1697, John Locke, Letter to the Bishop of Worcester (second reply)
- They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon...1744, A Dialogue Between the Rev. Mr. Jenkin Evans and Mr. Peter Dobson, concerning Bishops., London: M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noſter-row, →OCLC, page 37
- Synonyms:
- inscrutable, unexplainable
unintelligible meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Sanskrit
unintelligible in Urdu
- بےمعنی
unintelligible in Malayalam
- indiscernible, incomprehensible, mumbled
- ദുർഗ്രാഹ്യം, ദുർഗ്രഹ, മനസ്സിലാക്കാനാവാത്ത, ദുരൂഹം, അഗ്രാഹ്യ, അഗൃഹ്യ
- indecipherable, illegible, unreadable
- മനസ്സിലാക്കാനൊക്കാത്ത, വ്യക്തമായിട്ടെഴുതിയിട്ടില്ലാത്ത, വായിക്കാൻ കഴിയാത്ത, അസ്ഫുടമായ, ദുർഗ്രാഹ്യം, ഗ്രഹിക്കാനൊക്കാത്ത
unintelligible in Sanskrit
- unintelligible
- अगम्य agamya
Examples of unintelligible in a sentence
- The curious feature of the art was that "horse-whisperers" actually talked to the animal, usually from mouth to ear, in an unintelligible tongue; which, however, the horses appeared to understand.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 216:
- Unintelligible announcements on station loudspeakers are both irritating and confusing.1953 August, “Station Announcements”, in Railway Magazine, page 506:
Synonyms of unintelligible
Antonyms
Forms of unintelligible
| comparative | more unintelligible |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unintelligible |
Origin of unintelligible
From un- + intelligible.
Words formed from unintelligible
Questions about unintelligible
- What does unintelligible mean?
- Unintelligible means not intelligible; unable to be understood.
- What is unintelligible in Urdu?
- Unintelligible in Urdu is بےمعنی. See Unintelligible meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use unintelligible in a sentence?
- The curious feature of the art was that "horse-whisperers" actually talked to the animal, usually from mouth to ear, in an unintelligible tongue; which, however, the horses appeared to understand.
- What part of speech is unintelligible?
- Unintelligible is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unintelligible?
- Unintelligible is pronounced /ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/.
Words near unintelligible in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unintelligible (page history and authors); unintelligible (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unintelligible (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); अगम्य (Sanskrit) (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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