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Definition of unreadable in English: unreadableadjective ʌnˈriːdəb(ə)lˌənˈridəb(ə)l 1Not clear enough to read; illegible. Example sentencesExamples - Some retailers have only grudgingly implemented it, in some cases by using a typeface which is small enough to be unreadable.
- His attention caught by the news, Skylar glanced up from his unreadable handwriting and stared at the front of the classroom, knowing who would be standing half hidden behind the teacher.
- The type on the map I was using was completely unreadable, and forced me to do the unthinkable: pull over at a gas station and ask for directions!
- Teesside Magistrates Court was told that trading standards officials also found foods whose use-by dates were either unreadable or non-existent.
- You have no doubt seen people whose signatures are nothing more than scribbles, yet even those unreadable scratch marks are valid.
- The pages were scrawled with unreadable shorthand, quotes he would later unsuccessfully attempt to decipher, let alone match to any of the news stories he was supposed to be working on.
- But the Aston has its own annoying points, like the pretentiously styled dashboard on which the buttons are fiddly and the digital displays are unreadable in direct sunlight.
- He accessed the file - unreadable junk, nothing but hieroglyphics and squiggles on the screen.
- The nurse replied, flipping through some paperwork and scribbling in that unreadable language of health care providers.
- Physicians are often accused of having unreadable handwriting.
- He has served papers upon the Crown in which his address has been either obscured or certainly made unreadable.
- Her handwriting is chicken scratches, illegible and unreadable.
- The door was open, there were some books pilled up in his desk, along with messy papers filled with unreadable handwriting.
- Trouble was, the bulk of the collection was unreadable: blackened, scorched and damaged, ancient treasures beyond the reach of human eyes.
- The man held up his warrant card, even though the laser reflections from shiny clear plastic made it quite unreadable.
- These problems do not make African Rock Art unreadable, however, and the writing is clear enough for nonspecialists to understand.
- Handwritten communications that are unreadable are annoying and worthless.
- Scribbling an unreadable note that I attach to the fridge, I glance about for my wrist guards.
- But it's the language I never found out how to read… it's… unreadable to me.
- An unreadable scrawl that took hours to decipher.
Synonyms illegible, hard to read, indecipherable, unintelligible faint, faded, pale, indistinct, obscure, scrawled, scribbled, hieroglyphic, squiggly, crabbed informal clear as mud - 1.1 Too dull or difficult to be worth reading.
a heavy, unreadable novel Example sentencesExamples - That novel, about two competing writers, one a vacuous success, the other a brilliant but unreadable failure, has a lot to say about the literary life, both the successful and unsuccessful kind.
- … Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
- So why was I reading Kristof if I've already said he's unreadable?
- Other contributors have written in such a boring way that their work is virtually unreadable.
- It is widely agreed in publishing circles (on the basis of countless years of experience) that many of these manuscripts will be unreadable, unpublishable junk.
- In fact there are very good reasons why unread - or more or less unreadable - art critics continue to write regular columns for reputable newspapers.
- I find Woodward's breathless you-are-there insider accounts written in his trademark leaden prose to be virtually unreadable.
- First, they began to lecture about, and write about, stuff that everyone else found pretty much unreadable and dead boring.
- With the gutter, I feel at least it has a usefulness even at its lowest level, at least it's entertaining; at its lowest level, literary stuff is unreadable.
- I found it by turns, unreadable, incoherent, breathtakingly dull, or positively disturbing.
- If you haven't learnt the craft and you produce a lot of unreadable garbage then people won't read you.
- It seems odd that a poet so keen - perhaps even desperate - to reach across time, to provide us with such realism, should do so by writing wilfully unreadable poems.
- One is that no matter what the book is, no matter how dumb or bad or painful or unreadable it may seem to you, there is going to be someone out there who will like it and get pleasure from it, and you need to respect that.
- Some heralded his Soul Mountain as a great novel, but others found it unreadable.
- Although the young invited audience had been given a copy of the constitution, a large majority confessed that it was unreadable and incomprehensible.
- In fact, the entire story was disjointed and unreadable.
- The man is so full of hatred, vitriol and self-loathing that it is all beginning to seep into his columns so much that they have become almost unreadable.
- Despite the fact that it contains some interesting arguments about theatre's role in a society driven mad by the pursuit of wealth and power, it is, unfortunately, almost unreadable.
- Among the 20th century authors whose works I find mostly unreadable are two who inspire many people with a devotion and respect which are, to me, quite inexplicable.
- It's not that hard to make money - and it is worth it if it frees you from a poisonous environment which is turning your output into unreadable junk which has no value.
Synonyms dull, tedious, boring, uninteresting, dry, (as) dry as dust, wearisome, difficult, heavy-going, heavy, turgid incoherent, inarticulate, incomprehensible
2(of data or a storage medium or device) not capable of being processed or interpreted by a computer or other electronic device. Example sentencesExamples - The secret surfing programs also add a layer of encryption, ensuring that messages are scrambled in transit and are thus unreadable.
- The result of these techniques is to split spam words that make them unreadable by dictionary-based scanning tools.
- You state you want to make your "personal information" unreadable.
- Email encryption wraps a secure layer around messages and attachments, making them unreadable by anyone except their intended recipients.
- While the backup tape existed (or so they said) it was apparently unreadable.
- And I ended up losing the Amstrad disk, which was some weird, unreadable proprietary brand anyway.
- Then, the system starts doing some file transfers, and the display becomes completely unreadable.
- Let me know if it's unreadable in any browsers.
- All 8 Black Boxes were supposedly destroyed or haven't been recovered or were unreadable.
- Sometimes this may even result in unreadable output.
- The file shredder's mission is to scramble files before deletion, making them garbled and unreadable.
- For example, dust on the recording surface can result in portions of the data that are unreadable.
Derivatives nounʌnriːdəˈbɪlɪti The mystery is that Harold Bloom, for all his nearly perfect unreadability, today finds himself in that small but lucky elite of writers whose books sell without being actually read. Example sentencesExamples - I work with tiny publishing houses, rejecting dozens of manuscripts every week on the basis of sheer unreadability.
- For this reason it seems possible that the somewhat fearsome reputation of Ulysses, the popular idea of its lofty unreadability, owes as much to its erratic attention to image as to the more widely famous difficulty of its language.
- The sense of unreadability derives not just from the urban layout, or (it must be said) from the fact that I am foreign, but from the sheer scale and speed of redevelopment.
- Many of the ambiguities are surely due to cultural unreadability: these texts are hardly solicitous towards the Western viewer.
adverb as submodifier unreadably small footnotes Example sentencesExamples - How curious then that it is his character which evolves more unreadably than Yan's and it is Ming whose ambitions are to make such a quantum leap.
- If she resents her father crushing her hopes, she doesn't show it; her face retains the unreadably blank half-smile she always wears.
- First of all, it now allows the game to be played in resolutions higher than 640x480 (the fact that the fonts become unreadably small at anything over 800x600 is a whole other matter, though).
- For a while he entertained himself, and mystified many others, by penning an unreadably pretentious column for the Sunday Herald.
- The journals were labeled with almost unreadably small volume numbers and publication dates.
Definition of unreadable in US English: unreadableadjectiveˌənˈrēdəb(ə)lˌənˈridəb(ə)l 1Not clear enough to read; illegible. Example sentencesExamples - Some retailers have only grudgingly implemented it, in some cases by using a typeface which is small enough to be unreadable.
- Teesside Magistrates Court was told that trading standards officials also found foods whose use-by dates were either unreadable or non-existent.
- Physicians are often accused of having unreadable handwriting.
- These problems do not make African Rock Art unreadable, however, and the writing is clear enough for nonspecialists to understand.
- He accessed the file - unreadable junk, nothing but hieroglyphics and squiggles on the screen.
- The type on the map I was using was completely unreadable, and forced me to do the unthinkable: pull over at a gas station and ask for directions!
- Scribbling an unreadable note that I attach to the fridge, I glance about for my wrist guards.
- The pages were scrawled with unreadable shorthand, quotes he would later unsuccessfully attempt to decipher, let alone match to any of the news stories he was supposed to be working on.
- He has served papers upon the Crown in which his address has been either obscured or certainly made unreadable.
- But it's the language I never found out how to read… it's… unreadable to me.
- Her handwriting is chicken scratches, illegible and unreadable.
- His attention caught by the news, Skylar glanced up from his unreadable handwriting and stared at the front of the classroom, knowing who would be standing half hidden behind the teacher.
- The nurse replied, flipping through some paperwork and scribbling in that unreadable language of health care providers.
- The man held up his warrant card, even though the laser reflections from shiny clear plastic made it quite unreadable.
- Handwritten communications that are unreadable are annoying and worthless.
- You have no doubt seen people whose signatures are nothing more than scribbles, yet even those unreadable scratch marks are valid.
- But the Aston has its own annoying points, like the pretentiously styled dashboard on which the buttons are fiddly and the digital displays are unreadable in direct sunlight.
- The door was open, there were some books pilled up in his desk, along with messy papers filled with unreadable handwriting.
- Trouble was, the bulk of the collection was unreadable: blackened, scorched and damaged, ancient treasures beyond the reach of human eyes.
- An unreadable scrawl that took hours to decipher.
Synonyms illegible, hard to read, indecipherable, unintelligible - 1.1 Too dull or difficult to be worth reading.
a heavy, unreadable novel Example sentencesExamples - Among the 20th century authors whose works I find mostly unreadable are two who inspire many people with a devotion and respect which are, to me, quite inexplicable.
- If you haven't learnt the craft and you produce a lot of unreadable garbage then people won't read you.
- In fact there are very good reasons why unread - or more or less unreadable - art critics continue to write regular columns for reputable newspapers.
- The man is so full of hatred, vitriol and self-loathing that it is all beginning to seep into his columns so much that they have become almost unreadable.
- Other contributors have written in such a boring way that their work is virtually unreadable.
- That novel, about two competing writers, one a vacuous success, the other a brilliant but unreadable failure, has a lot to say about the literary life, both the successful and unsuccessful kind.
- One is that no matter what the book is, no matter how dumb or bad or painful or unreadable it may seem to you, there is going to be someone out there who will like it and get pleasure from it, and you need to respect that.
- Some heralded his Soul Mountain as a great novel, but others found it unreadable.
- First, they began to lecture about, and write about, stuff that everyone else found pretty much unreadable and dead boring.
- With the gutter, I feel at least it has a usefulness even at its lowest level, at least it's entertaining; at its lowest level, literary stuff is unreadable.
- So why was I reading Kristof if I've already said he's unreadable?
- It's not that hard to make money - and it is worth it if it frees you from a poisonous environment which is turning your output into unreadable junk which has no value.
- … Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
- It seems odd that a poet so keen - perhaps even desperate - to reach across time, to provide us with such realism, should do so by writing wilfully unreadable poems.
- Although the young invited audience had been given a copy of the constitution, a large majority confessed that it was unreadable and incomprehensible.
- Despite the fact that it contains some interesting arguments about theatre's role in a society driven mad by the pursuit of wealth and power, it is, unfortunately, almost unreadable.
- In fact, the entire story was disjointed and unreadable.
- I find Woodward's breathless you-are-there insider accounts written in his trademark leaden prose to be virtually unreadable.
- It is widely agreed in publishing circles (on the basis of countless years of experience) that many of these manuscripts will be unreadable, unpublishable junk.
- I found it by turns, unreadable, incoherent, breathtakingly dull, or positively disturbing.
Synonyms dull, tedious, boring, uninteresting, dry, dry as dust, as dry as dust, wearisome, difficult, heavy-going, heavy, turgid
2(of data or a storage medium or device) not capable of being processed or interpreted by a computer or other electronic device. Example sentencesExamples - Email encryption wraps a secure layer around messages and attachments, making them unreadable by anyone except their intended recipients.
- The result of these techniques is to split spam words that make them unreadable by dictionary-based scanning tools.
- You state you want to make your "personal information" unreadable.
- All 8 Black Boxes were supposedly destroyed or haven't been recovered or were unreadable.
- While the backup tape existed (or so they said) it was apparently unreadable.
- For example, dust on the recording surface can result in portions of the data that are unreadable.
- Then, the system starts doing some file transfers, and the display becomes completely unreadable.
- Let me know if it's unreadable in any browsers.
- The secret surfing programs also add a layer of encryption, ensuring that messages are scrambled in transit and are thus unreadable.
- Sometimes this may even result in unreadable output.
- The file shredder's mission is to scramble files before deletion, making them garbled and unreadable.
- And I ended up losing the Amstrad disk, which was some weird, unreadable proprietary brand anyway.
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