The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer he wrote.
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Illegibility
Synonyms for "illegibility" (6 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (1)
Related words (3)
Noun(2 words)
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3 entriesTranslations
11 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- нечетливост noun (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)
Catalan
1 entries- illegibilitat noun (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)
French
1 entries- illisibilité noun (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)
German
1 entries- Unlesbarkeit noun (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)
Hungarian
1 entries- olvashatatlanság noun (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)
Italian
1 entries- illeggibilità noun (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)
Macedonian
1 entries- нечитливост noun (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)
Portuguese
1 entries- ilegibilidade noun (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)
Russian
1 entries- нечита́емость noun (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)
Spanish
1 entries- ilegibilidad noun (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)
Turkish
1 entries- okunaksızlık noun (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
“Poor thing! poor thing!” says Briggs (who was thinking of twenty-four years back, and that hectic young writing-master whose lock of yellow hair, and whose letters, beautiful in their illegibility, she cherished in her old desk upstairs).
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I passed the time by adding to the illegibilities in my diary.
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And on the back endpaper of the Collins Clear-Type Shakespeare, a work of fatiguing illegibility, he wrote the names in large letters, as though his succession had already been settled.
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