Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: unintelligible
IPA transcription: [,ʌnɪnt'ɛlədʒəbəl]
Pronunciations of unintelligible
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: opaque, unintelligible
    Meaning: not clearly understood or expressed
  • Synonyms: unintelligible
    Meaning: poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; "unintelligible speech"
Usage examples
  • The speeches were disjointed--incongruous, and almost unintelligible.
  • These he presented to me with a few unintelligible words, and a bearing at once respectful and menacing.
  • Those last expressions I have quoted about the "august Mother of the house" were unintelligible, and appeared to me meaningless.
  • He felt himself vanquished on all sides, but he felt at the same time that what he wanted to say was unintelligible to his brother.
  • Exasperated as much by his composure as by his good-fortune, their words became unintelligible, and were succeeded by shrill, piercing yells.
  • Wherefore multiplication of matter is quite unintelligible, as long as the matter itself remains the same without anything added to it; unless it receives greater dimensions.
  • At length, she revived, and, looking feebly up at her niece, whose tears were falling over her, made an effort to speak, but her words were unintelligible, and Emily again apprehended she was dying.
  • He used the language of the Wyandots, or Hurons; his words were, consequently, unintelligible to Heyward, though they seemed, by the gestures that accompanied them, to be uttered more in courtesy than anger.
  • She did not like to be untrue to her gallant nephew. But as she came to turn it in her mind there were certain circumstances which recommended the change to her--should the change be necessary. Florence certainly had expressed an unintelligible objection to the elder brother.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Schizophrenia, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Final Fantasy VI, License CC BY-SA 4.0