unreadable
Americanadjective
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not readable; undecipherable; scribbled.
His scrawl was almost unreadable.
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not interesting to read; dull; tedious; an unreadable treatise.
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extraordinarily difficult to read or comprehend; obscure; incomprehensible.
an unreadable dream; an unreadable expression.
adjective
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illegible; undecipherable
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difficult or tedious to read
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“I am a deep ‘Star Wars’ fan,” he said in his second week on “The Late Show,” joking that his teleprompter was unreadable because it had angled yellow text like the famous “Star Wars” scroll.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
A strong undercurrent of that lively book is that it’s good to be unreadable and sneaky: “I play it very loose.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Under California privacy laws, it should have been shredded or rendered unreadable.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
Some archivists and futurists see this return to print as a way to counter a "digital dark age" - the idea that photos, videos and text might become unreadable as technology changes.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025
Simon and Penelope suspected that the unreadable diary of the ill-fated trip to Ahwoo-Ahwoo might have described the same voyage taken by Pudge and the admiral, and might even have been written by Pudge himself.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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