Both Uses of
intelligible
in
Not Without My Daughter
- greeted me happily, mumbling unintelligible Farsi, and shepherded me in and out of a series of rooms, using his authority and his elbows to cut to the heads of various lines.†
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.
- What are they saying to one another in this unintelligible Kurdish dialect?†
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Definition:
capable of being understood