unintelligible

/'ʌnin'telidʤəbl/

Thân thiện

The teacher could not understand the student's unintelligible answer.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Not able to be understood: Describes speech, writing, or sounds that are impossible to comprehend because they are unclear, garbled, or expressed in an unknown way.
   • Poorly articulated or obscured: Refers specifically to spoken language that is mumbled, slurred, or drowned out by noise, making the meaning lost.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The recording was so full of static that the message was completely unintelligible.
  • He was mumbling, and his words were unintelligible to everyone in the room.
  • The ancient manuscript was written in an unintelligible script that no one could decipher.

Advanced Usage

• "to render something unintelligible": to cause something to become impossible to understand.
  • The loud machinery rendered his instructions unintelligible.
• "unintelligible to someone": not understandable by a particular person or group.
  • The technical jargon was unintelligible to the general public.

Variants and Related Words

• Unintelligibly (adverb): in a manner that cannot be understood.
  • He muttered unintelligibly under his breath.
• Intelligible (adjective): (antonym) able to be understood; clear.
  • Please try to give an intelligible explanation.

Synonyms

• Incomprehensible: impossible to understand.
• Incoherent: expressed in a confused way, lacking logical connection.
• Indecipherable: impossible to read or interpret.

Related Phrases

• Garbled speech: speech that is confused and distorted, leading to a loss of meaning.
• Muffled sound: a sound that is not clear because it is blocked or softened, often making it unintelligible.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. not clearly understood or expressed
2. poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise
   • unintelligible speech

Từ đồng nghĩa

• opaque