Unintelligible - English meaning

adjective

(of a person) unable to think clearly; bewildered.

Usage examples:

She was utterly confused about what had happened

verb

Make (someone) bewildered or perplexed.

Usage examples:

Past and present blurred together, confusing her still further

adjective

Unable to think clearly or to understand something

Usage examples:

Grandpa gets pretty confused sometimes, and doesn't even know what day it is., i'm a bit confused. …

adjective

Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure.

Usage examples:

He found his boss's utterances too cryptic

adjective

Mysterious and difficult to understand

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A cryptic message/remark

adjective

Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious.

Usage examples:

He took the money with an enigmatic smile

adjective

Mysterious and impossible to understand completely

Usage examples:

The mona lisa has a famously enigmatic smile., he left an enigmatic message on my answering machine.

adjective

(of a message, sound, or transmission) confused and distorted; unclear.

Usage examples:

I got a garbled set of directions

verb

Reproduce (a message, sound, or transmission) in a confused and distorted way.

Usage examples:

The connection was awful and kept garbling his voice

adjective

(of something said) confused and unclear, or giving a false idea

Usage examples:

He left a garbled message on my answering machine.

adjective

Unable to express one's ideas or feelings clearly or easily.

Usage examples:

An inarticulate man of action

adjective

Unable to express feelings or ideas in words, or communicated in a way that is difficult to understand

Usage examples:

He refers to them as inarticulate mountain people., inarticulate cries of rage

adjective

(of spoken or written language) expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear.

Usage examples:

He screamed some incoherent threat

adjective

Not expressed in a way that can be understood, or not able to talk clearly

Usage examples:

He seemed dazed and incoherent, apparently from blood loss.

adjective

Not able to be understood; not intelligible.

Usage examples:

A language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office

adjective

Impossible to see or clearly distinguish.

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An indiscernible shape among the shadows

adjective

Impossible to see, see clearly, or understand

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An indiscernible change/shape/reason

adjective

Not clear or sharply defined.

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His speech was slurred and indistinct

adjective

Not clear

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An indistinct shape/sound/recollection

adjective

Impossible to understand or interpret.

Usage examples:

Guy looked blankly inscrutable

adjective

Having no meaning or significance.

Usage examples:

The paragraph was a jumble of meaningless words

adjective

Without representing or expressing anything; without referring to someone or something

Usage examples:

The leaflet was full of meaningless information., a meaningless gesture

adjective

Not arranged in order; untidy.

Usage examples:

The muddled display of pictures has been taken down

verb

Bring into a disordered or confusing state.

Usage examples:

I fear he may have muddled the message

verb

Say something indistinctly and quietly, making it difficult for others to hear.

Usage examples:

He mumbled something she didn't catch

noun

A quiet and indistinct utterance.

Usage examples:

Rosie had replied in a mumble

verb

Past simple and past participle of mumble

Usage examples:

She mumbled something about being too busy., [ + speech ] "i'm sorry," he mumbled.

adjective

Not discovered or known about; uncertain.

Usage examples:

His origins and parentage are obscure

verb

Keep from being seen; conceal.

Usage examples:

Grey clouds obscure the sun

adjective

Not known to many people

Usage examples:

An obscure 18th-century painter, official policy has changed for reasons that remain obscure.

verb

Make one's way quickly or awkwardly up a steep gradient or over rough ground by using one's hands as well as one's feet.

Usage examples:

We scrambled over the damp boulders

noun

A difficult or hurried clamber up or over something.

Usage examples:

An undignified scramble over the wall

noun

An emergency take-off by fighter aircraft.

Usage examples:

The scramble might be a training exercise or it might not

verb

Speak (words) indistinctly so that the sounds run into one another.

Usage examples:

He was slurring his words like a drunk

adjective

(of spoken words) pronounced indistinctly so that the sounds run into one another.

Usage examples:

She called paramedics after being concerned about his slurred speech

adjective

(of a group of two or more notes) performed legato.

Usage examples:

A group of slurred notes

adjective

Not easy to see, hear, or understand.

Usage examples:

The motive for this killing is unclear

adjective

Not obvious or easy to see or know

Usage examples:

[ + question word ] it’s unclear what actually happened that night., i’m unclear about a couple of …

adjective

Incapable of being fully explored or understood.

Usage examples:

Her grey eyes were dark with some unfathomable emotion

adjective

Impossible to understand

Usage examples:

For some unfathomable reason they built the toilet next to the kitchen.