Unintelligible (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Hard or impossible to understand.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The professor's monotone lecture was so boring and full of jargon that it became almost unintelligible to the students.
- The audio recording was of such poor quality that the conversation was unintelligible, making it impossible to transcribe.
- After a few too many drinks, John's slurred speech became unintelligible, and his friends struggled to make sense of what he was saying.
- The dialect spoken by the villagers was unintelligible to outsiders, who often found it difficult to communicate with them.
- The writer's use of overly complex vocabulary and convoluted sentence structures made the text unintelligible to all but the most advanced readers.
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Meaning 2
Poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; "unintelligible speech".
Classification
All adjective clusters.