as in illegible
incapable of being read or deciphered
after so many years the paper label in the drawer of the antique desk is indecipherable
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Recent Examples of indecipherable
The app translated this information into line graphs that looked impressively medical but were, to me, indecipherable.
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Anonymous, Vogue, 10 May 2025
But previously indecipherable 20-year-old data from NASA and European Space Agency telescopes suggests that flares from magnetars that formed much earlier — during the infancy of the universe — may have provided another way for the creation of gold, Burns said.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 May 2025
The formal complexity and poignant quietude of Jia’s filmmaking haven’t endeared him much to previous Cannes juries, and for some this latest entry, with its dizzying chains of intertextuality, must have seemed imposing to the point of being indecipherable.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 May 2025
Many are rhythmic ditties verging on rap — fine for solos but indecipherable chorally, especially when the rhymes are so vague.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
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Anonymous, Vogue, 10 May 2025
But previously indecipherable 20-year-old data from NASA and European Space Agency telescopes suggests that flares from magnetars that formed much earlier — during the infancy of the universe — may have provided another way for the creation of gold, Burns said.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 May 2025
The formal complexity and poignant quietude of Jia’s filmmaking haven’t endeared him much to previous Cannes juries, and for some this latest entry, with its dizzying chains of intertextuality, must have seemed imposing to the point of being indecipherable.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 May 2025
Many are rhythmic ditties verging on rap — fine for solos but indecipherable chorally, especially when the rhymes are so vague.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indecipherable
illegible
Adjective
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Wilson showed her a picture of their first tag, an illegible scrawl.—
Madeleine Wulfahrt,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Sponsor is not responsible for illegible, incomplete or stolen Entries, or Entries that are processed late or are lost or deleted due to computer or electronic malfunction, or other error.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
29 July 2025
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