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  • They both put their ears to the door, too, waiting to see if something intelligible came through.†  (source)
  • It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.†  (source)
  • My mouth opens, but no intelligible sound comes out.†  (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.
  • "Yes, they're great," Denny said, and Stem chimed in with a not-quite-intelligible murmur.†  (source)
  • They talked, cried out unintelligibly, lugged him toward the trees.†  (source)
    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.
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Mary utters something unintelligible, staring at Abigail, who keeps watching the "bird" above.†  (source)
  • The advanced algebra was still indecipherable—it came from a world beyond my ability to perceive—but the trigonometry had become intelligible, messages written in a language I could understand, from a world of logic and order that only existed in black ink and on white paper.†  (source)
  • He spoke unintelligibly of the sacrifices he had made on Billy's behalf.†  (source)
  • He can talk quite intelligibly if he wants to.†  (source)
  • 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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