as in incomprehensible
impossible to understand
uttered only a string of unintelligible murmurs
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Recent Examples of unintelligible
As satire, Next to Heaven is unintelligible, as though someone is universalizing their own hangups and then skewering them for clout.
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Book Marks
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
In a life-or-death emergency, voice signals might fade or be unintelligible; Morse code could punch through static and bad weather.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Filled with uncanny creatures and unintelligible language, the book's inspiration came, Serafini muses, either from aliens, or his cat.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 30 May 2025
Around midnight, a deep voice was heard yelling, but the words were unintelligible.
—Jen Guadarrama, IndyStar, 2 Apr. 2025
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Book Marks
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
In a life-or-death emergency, voice signals might fade or be unintelligible; Morse code could punch through static and bad weather.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Filled with uncanny creatures and unintelligible language, the book's inspiration came, Serafini muses, either from aliens, or his cat.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 30 May 2025
Around midnight, a deep voice was heard yelling, but the words were unintelligible.
—Jen Guadarrama, IndyStar, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unintelligible
Adjective
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And the thought of McDavid leaving Edmonton under any condition once felt incomprehensible.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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His way through was by finding connection with a character whose deeds seem incomprehensible.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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George MacKay and Callum Turner star in the eerie drama, playing fishermen in a remote village in Cornwall who board a mysterious ship that appears to be caught in a time loop.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
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God, or the Universe, works in mysterious ways.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Sometimes his mechanics have been atrocious, which is the most confusing development of them all.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Oct. 2025
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This, Tilly, can be confusing as an actress.—
Betty Gilpin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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What role did the infamous and cryptic Bob Gray play in the story?—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Oct. 2025
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Weeks before the actress officially filed for divorce, Kidman subtly alluded in a Vogue interview to what appeared to be a cryptic preview of the split.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Sigmund Freud defines the uncanny as the nagging presence of the familiar within the strange, the strange within the familiar.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
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These are essentially gothic works, in which bleary, nocturnal isolation opens a door to bizarre impulses and uncanny transformations.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The basic logic of the drink is, as mentioned, Negroni-like, but more esoteric on a number of fronts.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
4 Oct. 2025
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But this seems to me to be a far more likely possibility than Jesus making legendary journeys to India, Egypt, or even Britain, so popular in esoteric lore.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But there’s nothing impenetrable about that film.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 2025
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The timepiece that helped cement Rolex as a maker of impenetrable tool watches is heading to auction this fall.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
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Not after another season of beautiful dreams ended in the most painful, most unfathomable way possible, even by Phillies standards.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Unintelligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintelligible. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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