Synonyms for unintelligible
- adjective
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Adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Not intelligible; unable to be understood.
Example sentences
- incomprehensible This language is incomprehensible to me when spoken.
- incoherent A thousand incoherent ideas swirled around my mind.
- unknowable Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
- inscrutable She looked at him with an inscrutable expression.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| unintelligible | steady | |
| incomprehensible | rising | |
| incoherent | rising | |
| unknowable | rising | |
| inscrutable | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- thick1, dense1, vague1
- 6 letters
- opaque2
- 7 letters
- obscure2
- 9 letters
- ambiguous4, enigmatic4
- 10 letters
- mysterious4, incoherent4, unknowable4
- 11 letters
- inscrutable4
- 12 letters
- inexplicable5, impenetrable5, unfathomable5, incognizable, incognisable
- 13 letters
- unaccountable5, unexplainable5
- 14 letters
- undiscoverable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (opaque2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- inintelligible
- Italiano
- inintelligibile
- Español
- ininteligible
- Deutsch
- unverständlich
- Català
- inintel·ligible