Unintelligible

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unintelligible \Unintelligible\
     See {intelligible}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unintelligible


       adj 1: poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise;
              "unintelligible speech" [ant: {intelligible}]
       2: not clearly understood or expressed [syn: {opaque}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "unintelligible":
     Greek to one, ambiguous, amphibological, beyond understanding,
     equivocal, impenetrable, inarticulate, incognizable, incoherent,
     incomprehensible, inscrutable, numinous, opaque,
     past comprehension, rambling, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear,
     unconnected, unfathomable, unknowable, unsearchable, vague
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  UNINTELLIGIBLE. That which cannot be understood. 
       2. When a law, a contract, or will, is unintelligible, it has no effect 
  whatever. Vide Construction, and the authorities there referred to.