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
Other Word Forms
- unreadability noun
- unreadableness noun
- unreadably adverb
Etymology
Origin of unreadable
Example Sentences
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The blue eyes were as intense and unreadable as ever.
From Literature
His hope was to correct 19th-century histories of the Venetian Republic and its downfall, which, as he writes, “tend to veer between the inaccurate and the unreadable or, indeed . . . to combine the two.”
Critics argue that this policy clearly isn't working, if the terms and conditions are unreadable, and cookie choices are an irritation rather than a valued defence.
From BBC
They glanced at each other, an unreadable signal passing between them.
From Literature
Frank stood in the center of the room, breathing hard, his face full of unreadable calculations.
From Literature
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