All 6 Uses of
intelligible
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- This time he fell on his knees, and, clasping his hands convulsively, uttered a prayer intelligible to God alone.†
Chpt 23-24intelligible = capable of being understood
- Albert poured himself out a glass of lacryma Christi, which he sipped at intervals, muttering some unintelligible words.†
Chpt 33-34 *unintelligible = not capable of being understoodstandard 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.
- To this dumb language, which was so unintelligible to others, she answered by throwing her whole soul into the expression of her countenance, and in this manner were the conversations sustained between the blooming girl and the helpless invalid, whose body could scarcely be called a living one, but who, nevertheless, possessed a fund of knowledge and penetration, united with a will as powerful as ever although clogged by a body rendered utterly incapable of obeying its impulses.†
Chpt 57-58
- She had turned from the window, which remained open, and was praying in accents that would have affected the most unfeeling; her words were rapid, incoherent, unintelligible, for the burning weight of grief almost stopped her utterance.†
Chpt 73-74
- Barrois muttered a few unintelligible words.†
Chpt 79-80
- Then, with sighs which were unlike any human sound, he dragged himself to the door, reeled across the court-yard, and falling into the arms of his valet, he said in a voice scarcely intelligible,—"Home, home."†
Chpt 91-92intelligible = capable of being understood