illegible
not legible; impossible or hard to read or decipher because of poor handwriting, faded print, etc.: This letter is completely illegible.
Origin of illegible
1Other words from illegible
- il·leg·i·bil·i·ty, il·leg·i·ble·ness, noun
- il·leg·i·bly, adverb
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How to use illegible in a sentence
Large, repeating pixels distort and obscure the image, rendering it almost entirely illegible.
At Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum, a show on recent history that’s urgently of the moment | Kelsey Ables | January 27, 2021 | Washington PostThat was the issue in 2017 when bank examiners found flaws in Chase’s handling of checks that had stray markings, sloppy handwriting or were otherwise deemed illegible.
JPMorgan Chase Bank Wrongly Charged 170,000 Customers Overdraft Fees. Federal Regulators Refused to Penalize It. | by Patrick Rucker, The Capitol Forum | December 14, 2020 | ProPublicaBesides, most of the names were scrawled so illegibly, that some deceit was evidently intended.
The Thirty Years War, Complete | Friedrich SchillerBut Delavoye ran his finger to the left, and stopped on an emblem illegibly inscribed in small faint ancient print.
Witching Hill | E. W. HornungThese grievances, and much more, illegibly scrawled on foreign paper, with a quill pen.
Mount Music | E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross
Sometimes, when anything was written quite illegibly, she would go to my father's study and ask him what it meant.
Reminiscences of Tolstoy | Ilya Tolstoy“Better give middle names at the station,” he scribbled rather illegibly, due to the motion of the car.
The Mystery of Arnold Hall | Helen M. Persons
British Dictionary definitions for illegible
/ (ɪˈlɛdʒɪbəl) /
unable to be read or deciphered
Derived forms of illegible
- illegibility or illegibleness, noun
- illegibly, adverb
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