All 3 Uses of
intelligible
in
The Hunger Games
- Haymitch Abernathy, a paunchy, middle-aged man, who at this moment appears hollering something unintelligible, staggers onto the stage, and falls into the third chair.†
p. 19.6unintelligible = 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.
- The doors have only just shut behind us when we're engulfed by the prep teams, who are nearly unintelligible as they babble out praise.†
p. 72.1 *
- He coughs out something unintelligible.†
p. 332.7
Definition:
capable of being understood