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Unintelligible

//ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒɪbəl// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    hard or impossible to understand wordnet
  2. 2
    poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise wordnet

Etymology

From un- + intelligible.

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