unintelligible
/ʌnɪnˈtɛlɪdʒɪb(ə)l/
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American sound/ʌnɪnˈtɛlɪdʒɪb(ə)l/
ʌnɪnˈtɛlɪdʒɪbəl
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ʌnɪn - ˈtɛlɪdʒɪbəl -> unintelligible
Myanmar meaning
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unintelligible /ʌnÇn'telÇdʒǝbl / adj ~ (to sb)
နားမလည်နိုင်သော။ ဗလုံးဗထွေးနိုင်သော။ a pop song with totally unintelligible lyrics ❍ What they were saying was unintelligible to me.
❏ unintelligibly /-ǝbli / adv
ဗလုံးဗထွေး။ မရှင်းမလင်း။
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- ‘I may leave parties a little earlier than usual, when the chat gets unintelligible to anyone who isn't hammered.’
- ‘He began to speak in a tongue which was unintelligible to Carl yet which he thought he could almost understand.’
- ‘The reply, a deep but rapid burst of alien garble, is unintelligible.’
- ‘I mumbled something deliberately unintelligible and hopped down.’
- ‘It's as unintelligible a piece of artspeak and psychobabble as I have ever stumbled through, and a dictionary is not supplied.’
- ‘Sometimes I'd hear a melodic fragment or a texture, or it might sound like voices muttering in an unintelligible language.’
- ‘I think I'd have been inclined to shuffle about and mumble something unintelligible.’
- ‘On their way out, the women shout various slurred, unintelligible insults at the stage.’
- ‘For most people, indeed, the acts of a sex murderer are impossible and unintelligible.’
- ‘The idea of a cipher system is to disguise confidential information in such a way that its meaning is unintelligible to an unauthorized person.’
- ‘His sleep was restless, and every so often he mumbled a few unintelligible words.’
- ‘All she got in reply was some slurred, unintelligible mumbling.’
- ‘When understood, these attractors often explain complex, seemingly unintelligible behaviour.’
- ‘There seems to be nothing unintelligible or incoherent about the notion of spontaneous self-movement.’
- ‘Well, there's ironically post-modern and then there's almost unintelligible.’
- ‘Everything else it says is as unintelligible as the warbling of a canary.’
- ‘Enough of the biting social satire and back to the task of understanding our unintelligible cousins across the pond.’
- ‘I mumbled some unintelligible half-apology and took the elevator down to the lobby.’
- ‘They're hackneyed and thus utterly predictable, yet they still manage to be largely unintelligible.’
- ‘At the same time, we turn our heads, watch him fall off a chair and slur something unintelligible.’
Synonyms
incomprehensible, inarticulate, incoherent, garbled, jumbled, making no sense, meaningless, indecipherable, Greek, ambiguous, equivocal, fathomless, illegible, impenetrable, inaudible, incognizable, indistinct, inexplicit, muddled, not understandable, obscure, opaque, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, unexplicit, unfathomable, ungraspable, unknowable, unreadable, vague
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