unintelligible

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Adjective unintelligible has 2 senses

unintelligible - poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; "unintelligible speech"
Antonym: intelligible
opaque, unintelligible - not clearly understood or expressed
Antonyms: comprehensible, comprehendible (indirect, via incomprehensible)

Definitions from the Web

Term: unintelligible

Definition:

adjective

1. impossible to understand or comprehend; not clear or coherent.

2. difficult to hear or make out; incomprehensible.

Sense 1:

adjective - impossible to understand or comprehend; not clear or coherent.

Example sentences:

The speech was so unintelligible that I couldn't make sense of a single word.
The professor's handwriting on the whiteboard was utterly unintelligible.
The foreign accent made the instructions unintelligible to the tourist.

Sense 2:

adjective - difficult to hear or make out; incomprehensible.

Example sentences:

The audio recording was of such poor quality that it rendered the speaker's words unintelligible.
Due to the loud music, the announcements at the concert were largely unintelligible.
The baby's babbling was cute but completely unintelligible.