| 单词 | unintelligible |
| 释义 | unintelligible (once / 1310 pages) adj Something unintelligible is difficult to understand, either because the room is too noisy or because the unintelligible thing is too quiet or confusing. We use our intelligence to understand things, and something intelligible is easy to understand. Therefore, unintelligible things are hard to understand. A coded message is unintelligible if you don't know the code. A whisper in a loud room is unintelligible. A weird sentence like "The waffles ran away from the Easter basket" is unintelligible because it doesn't make any sense. If you can't hear or understand something, it's unintelligible (and probably frustrating too). WORD FAMILYunintelligible: unintelligibility, unintelligibly+/intelligible: intelligibility, intelligibly, unintelligible/unintelligibility: unintelligibilities USAGE EXAMPLESGoogle generally subscribes to a less-is-more philosophy, deploying a piecemeal approach that uses unintelligible units of sound to build words and phrases. Seattle Times(Dec 17, 2016) He said other things but they were unintelligible. Slate(Dec 06, 2016) Gula mumbled something unintelligible and kept staring at the floor. Washington Post(Nov 10, 2016) 1adj not clearly understood or expressed Syn opaque incomprehensible, uncomprehensible difficult to understand 2adj poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise unintelligible speech Syn|Ant incomprehensible, uncomprehensible difficult to understand slurred, thickspoken as if with a thick tongue intelligible well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly comprehendible, comprehensiblecapable of being comprehended or understood |
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