indecipherable
/ˌɪndɪˈsʌɪf(ə)rəb(ə)l
/adjective
Not able to be read or understood: indecipherable scrawls...
- I have no idea who sent it, as there's nothing to identify the couple except an indecipherable scrawl.
- The dialogue wavers from understandable to indecipherable, and there is very little depth or flavor to the recording.
- That first day there had been a choice of doors off the lobby; an indecipherable squiggle chiselled into the brass plate hung by each.
Synonyms
illegible, unreadable, hard to read, indistinguishable, indiscernible, unclear, indistinct;
scribbled, scrawled, hieroglyphic, squiggly, shaky, small, cramped, crabbed, pinched, bad;
unintelligible, unfathomable, impenetrable, enigmatic, puzzling, mystifying, inexplicable, baffling, bewildering
Derivatives
indecipherability
- the screen memorializes memory by making its indecipherability, rather than its contents, a central aesthetic focus.
- In truth his indecipherability had more to do with his heavy dialect and the prodigious amounts of ganja that he smoked!
- Within this project, I refer to the non-hermeneutic as those forms and spaces of indecipherability within Jazz that, for any number of reasons, resist interpretation.
indecipherably
- I'll swear Dad was able to hear them, and almost indecipherably his breathing began to change.
- For a full three minutes or so she stood on the other side of my desk sobbing and mumbling indecipherably.
- While McKenna, seated throughout, mutters indecipherably to himself.