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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Example Sentences
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The agendas also contained a distorted periodic table, unreadable phases of the moon and other garbled educational material that parents suspect may have been created using artificial intelligence.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
“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
But while Melling is always endearingly open and responsive, Skarsgård stays unreadable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
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
The name on the prow was unreadable to either of them, but Pima recognized one of the words below.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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