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[ US /ˌɪˈɫɛdʒəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ɪlˈɛd‍ʒəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible
    illegible handwriting

How To Use illegible In A Sentence

  • Her signature is totally illegible .
  • This reverse ekphrasis, with its glimpsed, illegible text, hints at the hidden world of the silent reader. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The papyri are broken and illegible; you must assemble an intelligible jigsaw from jagged fragments, truncated lines and eroded ink. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is a display font whose forms are extremely thick, up to the extent of being nearly illegible.
  • Some fine Specimens of lava from a partially active Volcano in the province of [gap word illegible], in the extreme north of Japan. Letter to Dr. Thomas from Young John AllenNov 19 1866
  • Oblivious, Sam paused to quickly scan the print-outs and spiky, almost illegible handwritten notes strewn around the room.
  • Carrying the burden of disease used to multiply with the multitude of small and large illegible chits and forms they had to carry with them every time they visited the hospital.
  • Some lines had been added on the last page; but they had been so carefully erased as to be illegible.
  • Tis really doing Injustice to the Country to impute to it such [illegible] uncandid, illiberal [illegible] Productions, but no Wonder these John Adams diary 7, 21 March - 18 October 1761
  • The writing pieces around the bag of melted ice had ink smudges all over them, enough for it to be illegible.
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