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capable of being understood- intelligible pronunciation
- articulate an intelligible plan
- The Director wanted us to feel like we were there, but the dialogue was not intelligible.
- (His voice sinks to an unintelligible mumble, over which rises the gabbling voice of Mrs. Soames) Mrs. Soames.Thornton Wilder -- Our Town
- She tried to say something, but it was unintelligible.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- Yet the answer did not seem sensible, intelligible.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- Two rapid, deafening bursts of automatic gunfire preceded unintelligible commands over the speakers, shouted in Russian.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- His screams were all the worse for being unintelligible.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- His words were slurred, unintelligible.Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
- He coloured, and stammered out an unintelligible reply.Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- I held my breath and hoped beyond hope for an intelligible answer.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- What are they saying to one another in this unintelligible Kurdish dialect?Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
- But that's perfectly intelligible.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- To a savage, the world is a place of unintelligible miracles where anything is possible to inanimate matter and nothing is possible to him.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- The recording was grainy, but still intelligible.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- My voice is ragged and slurry, almost unintelligible.Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
- She squeezed Carol's hand, said something unintelligible, stumbled up into the vestibule.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
- In back was a chalkboard scrawled with foods unintelligible to me: dagsoep, draadjesvlees, kaput ijnerschotel, zuurkoolstamppot.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- Instead he turned his head away into the pillow, and soon he was murmuring his unintelligible scraps.Ian McEwan -- Atonement
- —Art, said Stephen, is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
unintelligible = not capable of being understood
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
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