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  • They had not learned until it was far too late—in their teens—and so they mastered everything but the production of intelligible speech.†  (source)
  • "I'll come with you, Sam," she finally whispered, so quietly that her words were barely intelligible.†  (source)
  • The voices became louder but no more intelligible as the group of men reached the bank.†  (source)
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  • (His voice sinks to an unintelligible mumble, over which rises the gabbling voice of Mrs. Soames) Mrs. Soames.  (source)
    unintelligible = not capable of being understood
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • My mouth opens, but no intelligible sound comes out.†  (source)
    intelligible = capable of being understood
  • Buz brought out, just intelligibly, "You weren't astonizzhed when I told you about burying a girl in feathers, or pouring syrup over them—"†  (source)
    intelligibly = in a manner that is capable of being understood
  • Guards stalked them, clubs or baseball bats in their hands and rifles with fixed bayonets over their shoulders, making menacing postures and yelling unintelligibly.†  (source)
    unintelligibly = in a manner that is not capable of being understood
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintelligibly means not and reverses the meaning of intelligibly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • I began to think he had disappeared inside this wailing noise and if I could join him in his lost and suspended place we might together perform some reckless wonder of intelligibility.†  (source)
  • These mingle into something unintelligible.†  (source)
    unintelligible = not capable of being understood
  • Our illegal radio, turned too low to be intelligible, was broadcasting the news.†  (source)
    intelligible = capable of being understood
  • Or the horse itself, a white and beautiful one, was on its way over, approaching to ask some favor of him, a request called softly and intelligibly upward-which he was not decided yet whether to grant or deny.†  (source)
    intelligibly = in a manner that is capable of being understood
  • They talked, cried out unintelligibly, lugged him toward the trees.†  (source)
    unintelligibly = in a manner that is not capable of being understood
  • Some things which had seemed monstrous to her were gathering intelligibility and even a natural meaning: but all this was apparently a branch of knowledge in which Mr. Casaubon had not interested himself.†  (source)
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