unintelligible
pronunciation
How to pronounce unintelligible in British English:
UK [ˌʌnɪnˈtelɪdʒəbl]
How to pronounce unintelligible in American English:
US [ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəbəl]
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- Adjective:
- poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise
- not clearly understood or expressed
Word Origin
- unintelligible (adj.)
- 1610s, "incapable of being understood," from un- (1) "not" + intelligible. Related: Unintelligibly.
Example
- 1. Babies start out making unintelligible sounds .
- 2. No one wants to produce something unintelligible and uninspiring .
- 3. He was a man of complex and unintelligible personality .
- 4. His words were unintelligible but probably not very benevolent .
- 5. This volume then begins straight after the war , when beckett and deschevaux-dumesnil move back to paris and back to a life where beckett 's work could be rejected for being " wild and unintelligible " and where he was still considering the possibility that " any experience of trade journalism would be so useful . "