unreadable
unreadable adjective: not written clearly enough to be deciphered.
Adjective
unreadable (comparative more unreadable, superlative most unreadable)
- Not written clearly enough to be deciphered.
- unreadable handwriting
- unreadable charts
- Synonyms:
- illegible, indecipherable, unclear
- Making an unpleasant reading experience, e.g. because it is dull or upsetting.
- an unreadable book
- unreadable rants
- Not able to be accessed or played by some technical device.
- The scratched CD is unreadable.
unreadable meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Persian
unreadable in Tamil
- வாசிக்கக் கடினமான, கிறுக்கலான, புரியாத, தெளிவற்ற
unreadable in Urdu
- پڑھنے کے ناقابل
unreadable in Malayalam
- hard to read, illegible, indecipherable
- വായിക്കാനൊക്കാത്ത, വായിക്കാൻ പ്രയാസമായ, വ്യക്തതയില്ലാത്ത, വ്യക്തമായിട്ടെഴുതിയിട്ടില്ലാത്ത, മനസ്സിലാക്കാനൊക്കാത്ത, വായിക്കാൻ കഴിയാത്ത
- uninteresting, dull, tedious
- വായനാസുഖമില്ലാത്ത, വായിക്കാൻ പ്രയാസമായ, മുഷിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, മുഷിപ്പനായ, വിരസമായ, അരസികം
- enigmatic, inscrutable, impenetrable
- വ്യവച്ഛേദിക്കാനാവാത്ത, ദുർജ്ഞേയമായ, ദുർഗ്രാഹ്യമായ, ദുർഗ്രഹമായ, നിഗൂഢതയുള്ള, അപ്രവേശ്യമായ
unreadable in Persian
- that cannot be deciphered
- لایقرء lâ-yoqra'
Examples of unreadable in a sentence
- The doctor's scrawled signature was almost unreadable.
- The mathematically rigorous texts, on the other hand, are unreadable for the non- specialist.
- Peano gave full credit to Peirce for the notation and declared Frege’s notation unreadable.
Synonyms of unreadable
Antonyms
Forms of unreadable
| comparative | more unreadable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unreadable |
Origin of unreadable
From un- + readable.
Words formed from unreadable
Questions about unreadable
- What does unreadable mean?
- Unreadable means not written clearly enough to be deciphered.
- What is unreadable in Tamil?
- Unreadable in Tamil is வாசிக்கக் கடினமான, கிறுக்கலான, புரியாத. See Unreadable meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is unreadable?
- Unreadable is an adjective.
Words near unreadable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unreadable (page history and authors); unreadable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unreadable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unreadable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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