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Unintelligible definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNINTEL'LIGIBLE, a. Not intelligible; that cannot be understood.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; "unintelligible speech" [ant: intelligible]
2: not clearly understood or expressed [syn: opaque, unintelligible]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. not intelligible. Derivatives: unintelligibility n. unintelligibleness n. unintelligibly adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Unintelligible language is impossible to understand, for example because it is not written or pronounced clearly, or because its meaning is confused or complicated. He muttered something unintelligible... ...the unintelligible phrases and images of his earlier poems. = incomprehensible ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Incomprehensible.

Moby Thesaurus

Greek to one, ambiguous, amphibological, beyond understanding, equivocal, impenetrable, inarticulate, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, inscrutable, numinous, opaque, past comprehension, rambling, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, unconnected, unfathomable, unknowable, unsearchable, vague