unintelligible

«unintelligible» in Mova's school dictionary: Unintelligible speech or writing cannot be understood… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (unintelligible)

meaning for a pupil

Unintelligible speech or writing cannot be understood because it is unclear, mumbled, too messy, or in a code or language you do not know. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used about mumbling, bad phone lines, messy handwriting, noisy announcements, and foreign languages. It tells the reader that the words could not be understood, not that they were wrong.

examples

• The message on the radio was unintelligible because of the noise. tree →
• His handwriting was almost unintelligible. tree →
• She muttered something unintelligible and went to bed. tree →
• The station announcement was unintelligible over the trains. tree →
• The baby's babble is still unintelligible to visitors. tree →
• The code looked like unintelligible nonsense until we found the key. tree →
• The longer he spoke with the boatmen, the more unintelligible did their language become to him. tree →

note

Formal word. Opposite: «intelligible» (can be understood). Not about intelligence: an unintelligible person is not stupid; their words just cannot be understood. Similar: «incomprehensible».

In the corpora

• For thou art not sent to a people of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, but to the house of Israel;
• not to many peoples of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, whose words thou canst not understand.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unintelligible» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.