All 4 Uses of
intelligible
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- More than once, in the choir, at the hour of the offices, his neighbor in the stalls had heard him mingle with the plain song, ~ad omnem tonum~, unintelligible parentheses.†
Chpt 1.4.5 *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.
- If his deafness did happen to betray him here and there, by some incoherent apostrophe or some unintelligible question, it passed for profundity with some, and for imbecility with others.†
Chpt 1.6.1
- As the young man did not laugh constantly, fragments of the old woman's ditty reached the priest; it was something unintelligible yet frightful,— "~Grève, aboie, Grève, grouille!†
Chpt 2.9.1
- The king spoke so low that the Flemings heard nothing of his dictation, except some isolated and rather unintelligible scraps, such as,— "To maintain the fertile places by commerce, and the sterile by manufactures....—To show the English lords our four bombards, London, Brabant, Bourg-en-Bresse, Saint—†
Chpt 2.10.5
Definition:
capable of being understood