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UK
/ˌʌnɪntˈɛlɪdʒəbəl/
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[ US /ˌənɪnˈtɛɫədʒəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌənɪnˈtɛɫədʒəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- hard or impossible to understand
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poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise
unintelligible speech
How To Use unintelligible In A Sentence
- With these prohibitions should be connected the somewhat unintelligible fact that the most pious Caliphs sat upon thrones (_mimbar_, "president's chair") of clay. Christianity and Islam
- The result is a totally incoherent agglomeration of speech-forms -- a baragouin fantastic and unintelligible beyond the power of anyone to imagine who has not heard it .... Two Years in the French West Indies
- We reserve the right to edit all letters so that all the nasty, unintelligible bits get taken out.
- Which is why he mumbled something unintelligible instead. The Sun
- That name will live in infamy for as long as the US continues to exist; the most unintelligible moron to ever foul the Oval Office, as well as the worst president in US history. Think Progress » DC Media Scoff At President Obama’s Substantive And Detailed Answer To Health Care Question
- Another personality was Harry Hemsley, who had a little boy who spoke in an unintelligible gabble, but was understood perfectly well by his elder sister.
- But he had difficulty breathing and his speech was almost unintelligible. The Sun
- As characterized by Vargha-Khadem's team, the affected KE's speech is effortful, “sometimes agrammatical and often unintelligible” (Watkins et al. 2002: 453), and shows impairments not just in morphosyntax (e.g., regular plural and past tense endings) but also in the formation of irregular past tenses Innateness and Language
- On the record and live, Jon's vocals are almost unintelligible through guitarist Jared Burke Eglington's extreme riffage.
- I plowed through this text in my bedroom late at night, while the unintelligible garble of the downstairs television kept me abreast of my parents' assured position in front of it.