as in incomprehensible
impossible to understand
uttered only a string of unintelligible murmurs
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Recent Examples of unintelligible
But when the meeting started, the audio was garbled and unintelligible as city staff made a presentation on the item.
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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
Ensure that all content stored and transmitted is encrypted, which means that the data remains unintelligible to unauthorized parties even if it is intercepted.
—Kris Lahiri, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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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
Ensure that all content stored and transmitted is encrypted, which means that the data remains unintelligible to unauthorized parties even if it is intercepted.
—Kris Lahiri, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unintelligible
Adjective
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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
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This defendant’s actions are incomprehensible, and he will be held accountable.—
Stepheny Price,
Fox News,
18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Researchers in northern Denmark have unearthed evidence of a mysterious circle of wooden posts dating back 4,000 years.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Mar. 2025
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During the course of the series, Mullen's investigation into the cyberattack unearths the mysterious weapon.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Tell me more about the album’s title—is it supposed to be a little cryptic?—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2025
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Prologue was first announced in 2019 with a cryptic trailer that showed a first-person view of a storm crashing through a dark forest.—
Issy van der Velde,
Rolling Stone,
20 Feb. 2025
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Daniels, who is 6'8 and enormously athletic, has already - at such a young age - found a way to bridge the two aspects, and combine them with his uncanny basketball IQ that takes into account timing, player tendencies, and anticipation.—
Morten Stig Jensen,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Like a chameleon, the 5-foot-6 senior has the uncanny ability to adapt to any opponent, game situation or even time of year.—
Steve Reaven,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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But there are also more esoteric forums, such as r/rentnerzeigenaufdinge, the German-language subreddit that’s devoted to context-free photos of retirees pointing at random things.—
Adrienne LaFrance,
The Atlantic,
4 Mar. 2025
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Practiced in esoteric pursuits including Kabbala and Rosicrucianism, Court de Gébelin sought meaning in the cards’ strange symbolism.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Test Your Defenses Regularly No system is impenetrable, which is why continuous testing is essential.—
Julio Fort,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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If love is a conspiracy of two, impenetrable to outsiders, Iago finds a way to pierce through, seeding doubt about Desdemona in Othello.—
Maya Singer,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2025
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In this context, Roz’s sudden maternal reflexes are unfathomable.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 Feb. 2025
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Borneo introduced the world of Survivor to fans with the unfathomable presentation of 16 castaways roughing it on an island, forming alliances and blindsiding their way to $1 million.—
Skyler Trepel,
People.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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Everything feels absurd and animated by obscure cosmic forces.—
Willing Davidson,
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2025
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After years in obscure so-so movies playing Chopin and Byron, and in some respectable Merchant Ivory ones, the surprise star of last year's Four Weddings and a Funeral and this year's Nine Months and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain has lately been having a bad life.—
Candace Bushnell,
Vogue,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Unintelligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintelligible. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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