as in incomprehensible
impossible to understand
uttered only a string of unintelligible murmurs
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Recent Examples of unintelligible
Instead, like 2022’s Smile, the end credits are accompanied by haunting unintelligible voices and sounds throughout.
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Tim Lammers, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
But when the meeting started, the audio was garbled and unintelligible as city staff made a presentation on the item.
—Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2024
Clinical notes are now legible and easy to retrieve but often bloated with unnecessary, duplicative, and, at times, unintelligible content.
—Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into believing the unintelligible prompt might do something useful, such as improve their CV.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
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Tim Lammers, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
But when the meeting started, the audio was garbled and unintelligible as city staff made a presentation on the item.
—Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2024
Clinical notes are now legible and easy to retrieve but often bloated with unnecessary, duplicative, and, at times, unintelligible content.
—Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into believing the unintelligible prompt might do something useful, such as improve their CV.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unintelligible
Adjective
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Upon agreement, their dialogue shifts to a series of sounds incomprehensible to humans.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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In a twist that’s almost incomprehensible today, the Chinese government even officially adopted the US State Department’s method for reporting air quality.—
Zeyi Yang,
WIRED,
5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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After his first game since Feb. 26, Porziņģis detailed his long journey back from a mysterious illness.—
Jay King,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Everyone is a suspect, and there’s a lot of buildup to finding out what happened at a fateful St. Patrick’s Day party 15 years prior — especially when Chelsea (Ilana Glazer) makes a mysterious reference to an incident that made the entire school ostracize her.—
Marianne Eloise,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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The Bachelor alum took to social media on Wednesday, March 19, with a cryptic message seemingly responding to her ex-boyfriend Brendan Morais’ hard launch with his new girlfriend Serene Russell.—
Liza Esquibias,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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The episode ends with a cryptic phone call to Luca from a family member, hinting at their ties to the resort.—
Martine Paris,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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An uncanny all-star cast (including Ken Cosgrove actor Aaron Staton); a resplendent recreation of postwar Los Angeles; a spate of unsolved crimes.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Going from the staid post-Impressionism of her artistic education at London’s Slade School of Fine Art to a world of dreams, magic, and the uncanny opened a door.—
Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Cordelia Cupp is a collector of esoteric information and her desire to learn things about the White House while also learning things about a crime borders on charming.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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The esoteric will never sit completely comfortably in the mainstream, because that’s the point of it: to be unusual, bizarre, absurd.—
Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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It’s apparently been rigged into an impenetrable torture device on wheels.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Mar. 2025
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The black-and-white cinematography is effectively murky, painting everything from circus sideshows to public baths with impenetrable inky corners.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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The breadth of that command is almost unfathomable.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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The idea that someone in the industrial sector had a past in film was almost unfathomable to them.—
Kody Boye,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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Disney had released some trailers but this was still an obscure Star Wars series following characters that most fans knew little about, and casual fans had never heard of before.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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Russia’s ideological efforts in this domain were so effective in Romania’s 2024 presidential election, for instance, that an obscure far-right presidential candidate, Cǎlin Georgescu, came out of nowhere and won the first round.—
Michael McFaul,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Unintelligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintelligible. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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