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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Origin of unreadable
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
It’s an eye-crossing quantity of goodwill, so insipid and repetitive as to become unreadable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The BBC has seen a copy of the judgement which includes the report and a two-page prescription which shows the doctor's unreadable scrawl.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
But I don’t know that the justices can manage their public image and reputation by continuing to be incomprehensible, unreadable, or jurisdictional.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2025
He glanced over at me, his gaze unreadable.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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