unintelligible
/ʌnɪnˈtɛlɪdʒɪb(ə)l
/adjective
Impossible to understand: dolphin sounds are unintelligible to humans...
- Enough of the biting social satire and back to the task of understanding our unintelligible cousins across the pond.
- For most people, indeed, the acts of a sex murderer are impossible and unintelligible.
- I think I'd have been inclined to shuffle about and mumble something unintelligible.
Synonyms
incomprehensible, indiscernible, meaningless, unfathomable, obscure, cryptic, inscrutable, enigmatic, mumbled, indistinct, unclear, slurred, inarticulate, incoherent, confused, garbled, scrambled, muddled, jumbled, senseless
informal all Greek to me
illegible, indecipherable, unreadable, hard to read, scrawled, scribbled, crabbed
Derivatives
unintelligibility
- The unintelligibility of this Court's precedent raises the further concern that, either in appearance or in fact, adjudication of Establishment Clause challenges turns on judicial predilections.
- But the arbitrariness, the unintelligibility, the absolute mysteriousness of totalitarianism are essential to Berman's larger argument.
- It is this Burkean notion of rhetoric, which is necessitated by unintelligibility but activated by intelligibility, which animates the spaces of everyday life.
unintelligibly
/ adverb ...- To that end, he reproduces pages from 17th century books - pages and pages of Latin going on pompously and unintelligibly, forging the way ahead for the fledging sciences.
- As I made my way up 2nd Avenue, I noticed a raving lunatic weaving all over the sidewalk yelling and screaming unintelligibly.
- He's kinda got a similar guitar strum, one dancing leg thing going for him, as well as the singing completely unintelligibly thing, too.