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It is typically used to describe speech or writing that is impossible to understand. Example: "The speaker's heavy accent made his words unintelligible to the audience." Alternatives include "incomprehensible" or "indecipherable."
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Unintelligible
adjective
Not intelligible; unable to be understood.
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You might initially assume it would be occupied by Danny Alexander, the sensationally overpromoted former press officer for the Cairngorms National Park, whose role appears to be to spout unintelligible cobblers with bewildering enthusiasm.
It is unintelligible, which is why 90% of taxpayers use an accountant or commercial software to file their returns.
Their mother tongue, Mongolian, is unintelligible to most Hans.
If they are caught accidentally breaking an unintelligible rule, that would embarrass their employer.The ACA tries to raise awareness of its members' plight.
He accused the economists with "conspiring to spread mental fog," charging that they "were unintelligible; that they had in general proved wrong; and that in any case they all disagreed".
This is partly because he spends much of the movie saying nothing, and what he does utter comes out in a voice rather like the unintelligible rumble Mr Hardy brought to Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises".
Many grassroots activists criticised the concept bitterly for being unintelligible to voters on the campaign doorstep.
In framing his pronouncements on exchange rates, his best bet would be to establish a reputation for profundity by saying nothing, or by making whatever he does say unintelligible (Alan Greenspan, passim).
The 50,000 native Socotris, speaking four dialects of a singsong ancient language unintelligible to other Yemenis, subsist on fish, goats and not much else.
The financial results of companies that global investors wish to buy into can be as unintelligible as the dialect spoken in the company town.
On top of all this, Kurds are divided into at least two mutually unintelligible language groups.
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