Dictionary entry
Unintelligibly
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəbli/
Pronunciation
/ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəbli/
Myanmar Meaning
ဗလုံးဗထွေး။ မရှင်းမလင်း။
Definition
unintelligible /ʌnÇn'telÇdʒǝbl / adj ~ (to sb) နားမလည္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ ဗလံုးဗေထြးႏိုင္ေသာ။ a pop song with totally unintelligible lyrics ❍ What they were saying was unintelligible to me. ❏ unintelligibly /-ǝbli / adv ဗလံုးဗေထြး။ မရွင္းမလင္း။
Examples
- ‘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.’