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unintelligible [uhn-in-tel-i-juh-buhl]
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: broken
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stuttering in speech
Synonyms: disjointed, halting, hesitant, hesitating, imperfect, incoherent, mumbled, muttered, stammering, unintelligible, weak
Antonyms: continuous, flowing
Main Entry: difficult
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: complicated; hard to comprehend
Synonyms: abstract, abstruse, baffling, bewildering, complex, confounding, confusing, dark, deep, delicate, enigmatic, enigmatical, entangled, esoteric, formidable, hard to explain, hard to solve, hidden, inexplicable, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, loose, meandering, mysterious, mystical, mystifying, nice, obscure, obstinate, paradoxical, perplexing, problematical, profound, puzzling, rambling, subtle, tangled, thorny, ticklish, troublesome, unclear, unfathomable, unintelligible, vexing
Antonyms: easy, simple, straightforward, uncomplicated
Example Sentences
  • Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible.
  • Wainwright is not careful, he swallows syllables, and the words become unintelligible.
  • Unintelligible dialects are sometimes combined into one language if they share a literature or other cultural heritage.
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Main Entry: disconnected
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: confused; discontinuous
Synonyms: broken, detached, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, inchoate, incoherent, incohesive, interrupted, irrational, irregular, jumbled, loose, mixed-up, muddled, rambling, separated, uncontinuous, uncoordinated, unintelligible, wandering
Antonyms: attached, coherent, connected, continuous, intelligible, joined, understandable
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: equivocal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: doubtful, uncertain
Synonyms: ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibological, borderline, clear as mud, clouded, disreputable, dubious, evasive, fishy, fuzzy*, hazy*, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misleading, muddled, muzzy, oblique, obscure, open, problematic, puzzling, questionable, suspect, suspicious, tenebrous, unclear, undecided, unexplicit, unintelligible, vague, with mixed feelings
Antonyms: certain, clear, definite, determined, obvious, plain, sure, unequivocal, unquestionable
Main Entry: hazy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: confused
Synonyms: dazed, dizzy, dreamy, groggy, ill-defined, indefinite, indistinct, muddled, murky, nebulous, obscure, stuporous, tranced, uncertain, unclear, unintelligible, unsound, vague, whirling
Antonyms: certain, definite, distinct, explained, sure, unconfused
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
Antonyms: decipherable, legible, readible, understandable
Main Entry: impenetrable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: incomprehensible
Synonyms: Delphic, arcane, baffling, cabalistic, dark, enigmatic, enigmatical, hidden, incognizable, indiscernible, inexplicable, inscrutable, mysterious, mystic, obscure, sibylline, unaccountable, unfathomable, ungraspable, unintelligible, unknowable
Antonyms: comprehensible, intelligible, penetrable, understandable
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