Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unreadable |
| Synonyms: | cryptic, hieroglyphic, illegible, scrawled |
| Antonyms: | decipherable |
| Main Entry: | enigmatic/enigmatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious |
| Synonyms: | Delphian, Sibylline, ambiguous, cryptic, dark, doubtful, equivocal, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable, inscrutable, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secret, sphinxlike, stickling, stumping, teasing, uncertain, unfathomable, unintelligible |
| Antonyms: | clear, obvious, unmysterious |
| Main Entry: | illegible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unreadable |
| Synonyms: | cacographic, crabbed, cramped, difficult to read, faint, hard to make out, hieroglyphic, indecipherable, indistinct, obscure, scrawled, unclear, undecipherable, unintelligible |
| Notes: | eligible means qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen while illegible means hard to read or not legible illegible refers to bad handwriting, while unreadable refers to poor writing |
| Antonyms: | decipherable, legible, readible, understandable |
| Main Entry: | inexplicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beyond comprehension, explanation |
| Synonyms: | baffling, enigmatic, incomprehensible, indecipherable, indescribable, inexplainable, inscrutable, insoluble, mysterious, mystifying, obscure, odd, peculiar, puzzling, strange, unaccountable, undefinable, unexplainable, unfathomable, unintelligible, unsolvable |
| Antonyms: | comprehendible, explainable, explicable, intelligible |
| Main Entry: | insoluble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious, unable to be solved or answered |
| Synonyms: | baffling, difficult, impenetrable, indecipherable, inexplicable, inextricable, irresolvable, mystifying, obscure, unaccountable, unconcluded, unfathomable, unresolved, unsolvable, unsolved |
| Antonyms: | explainable, explicable, obvious, open, solvable |
| Main Entry: | unfathomable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard to believe; difficult to understand |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, baffling, clear as mud, deep, enigmatic, esoteric, heavy, impenetrable, incognizable, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable, obscure, profound, too deep, uncomprehensible, ungraspable, unintelligible, unknowable |
| Antonyms: | believable, comprehensible, fathomable |
| Main Entry: | unintelligible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not understandable |
| Synonyms: | Greek, ambiguous, equivocal, fathomless, illegible, impenetrable, inarticulate, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, indecipherable, indistinct, inexplicit, jumbled, meaningless, muddled, obscure, opaque, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, unexplicit, unfathomable, ungraspable, unknowable, unreadable, vague |
| Antonyms: | comprehensible, intelligible, meaningful, understandable |
| Main Entry: | unreadable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegible |
| Synonyms: | cacographic, crabbed, difficult to read, hard to make out, incomprehensible, indecipherable, scrawled, scribbled, unclear, undecipherable |
| Notes: | illegible refers to bad handwriting, while unreadable refers to poor writing |
| Main Entry: | enigmatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious |
| Synonyms: | Delphian, ambiguous, cryptic, dark, doubtful, enigmatical, equivocal, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable, inscrutable, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secret, sphinxlike, stickling, stumping, teasing, uncertain, unfathomable, unintelligible |
| Antonyms: | clear, known, obvious, plain |
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