Both Uses of
intelligible
in
Interview with the Vampire
- And he knelt in the grass, bleeding, dying, shouting something unintelligible at Freniere.†
Part 1 *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.
- Soon, with an inflexible mind, and often even with the most flexible mind, this immortality becomes a penitential sentence in a madhouse of figures and forms that are hopelessly unintelligible and without value.†
Part 3
Definition:
capable of being understood