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unreadable

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adjective

  1. not easily deciphered

Examples

He sat at the opposite side of the table from Nero, his expression unreadable due to the fact that his face was concealed by a smooth oval mask of flawless black glass.

The ineffable in poetry is almost always the unreadable.

Tchitcherine tracks mud off the street into the Center, gets a blush from Luba, a kind of kowtow and mopflourish from the comical Chinese swamper Chu Piang, unreadable stares from an early pupil or two.

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illegible

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adjective

  1. (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible

Examples

This reverse ekphrasis, with its glimpsed, illegible text, hints at the hidden world of the silent reader.

The papyri are broken and illegible; you must assemble an intelligible jigsaw from jagged fragments, truncated lines and eroded ink.

It is a display font whose forms are extremely thick, up to the extent of being nearly illegible.

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