This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Unintelligible synonyms
ŭn'ĭn-tĕl'ĭ-jə-bəl
Sorting by
Votes
incomprehensible
Impossible to know or fathom:
0
0
  1. Impossible to know or fathom:
  2. Not comprehensible; that cannot be understood; obscure or unintelligible
  3. Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible:
indecipherable
That cannot be deciphered; illegible
0
0
  1. That cannot be deciphered; illegible
  2. Not decipherable; impossible to decode, read, understand or comprehend.
  3. Impossible to decipher:
meaningless
Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
0
0
  1. Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
  2. Lacking meaning.
  3. Having no meaning; without significance or purpose; senseless
indistinct
Not separate or separable; not clearly marked off; not plainly defined
0
0
  1. Not separate or separable; not clearly marked off; not plainly defined
  2. Not seen, heard, or perceived clearly; faint; dim; obscure
  3. Hazy; vague:
impenetrable
That cannot be solved or understood; unfathomable; inscrutable
0
0
  1. That cannot be solved or understood; unfathomable; inscrutable
  2. Impossible to understand; incomprehensible:
  3. Impossible to penetrate or enter:
incomprehensible
Impossible to know or fathom:
0
0
  1. Impossible to know or fathom:
  2. Not comprehensible; that cannot be understood; obscure or unintelligible
  3. Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible:
inscrutable
Difficult to understand or interpret; impenetrable:
0
0
  1. Difficult to understand or interpret; impenetrable:
  2. That cannot be easily understood; completely obscure or mysterious; unfathomable; enigmatic
unfathomable
Incapable of being measured
0
0
  1. Incapable of being measured
  2. That cannot be understood; incomprehensible
  3. Difficult or impossible to understand; incomprehensible:
Find another word for unintelligible. In this page you can discover 11 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for unintelligible, like: incomprehensible, indecipherable, meaningless, indistinct, obscure, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inscrutable, uncomprehensible, unfathomable and knowledge.

Sentence Examples

  • He grumbled something unintelligible and hung up.

  • The brief statement in the Inquiry, § iv., is of no value, and indeed is almost unintelligible unless taken in reference to the full discussion contained in part ii.

  • A cryptographic machine, which changed the cipher automatically and printed a message, entirely unintelligible until translated by a duplicate instrument, was one of the most perfect examples of this.

  • Some time after the capture of Jerusalem the ark was brought from Baal-Judah, but at the threshing-floor of Nacon (an unintelligible name) Abinadab's son Uzzah laid hands upon it and was struck down for his impiety.

  • Even where, as in the Vedas, the sacred books of India, there is proof that the work has been transmitted without change through many centuries, the existence of unintelligible passages and unmetrical verses shows that here too there is work for textual criticism to perform, though in the opinion of most scholars it should be confined to the restoration of such forms as would be unconsciously and inevitably corrupted through changes of pronunciation and the like.

More sentences →

Words that mention unintelligible in the Dictionary

Words near unintelligible in the Thesaurus