as in unreadable
incapable of being read or deciphered
illegible signatures on the petition will be disregarded
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Recent Examples of illegible
Giveaway Entities are not responsible for lost, misdirected, illegible, damaged or undelivered Entries.
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USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
The Farsi text is illegible to most viewers, and even those who can read the language would not know the real meaning of the poems.
—Max Norman, ARTnews.com, 9 Dec. 2024
As for the mail, not only was there the sheer volume to contend with, but some of the parcels had become moldy or eaten by vermin, while others had illegible addresses.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
No illegible, incomplete, forged or altered entries will be accepted.
—Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 20 Dec. 2024
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USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
The Farsi text is illegible to most viewers, and even those who can read the language would not know the real meaning of the poems.
—Max Norman, ARTnews.com, 9 Dec. 2024
As for the mail, not only was there the sheer volume to contend with, but some of the parcels had become moldy or eaten by vermin, while others had illegible addresses.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
No illegible, incomplete, forged or altered entries will be accepted.
—Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for illegible
Adjective
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Then there are the various black and white squares which are actually data modules encoding the information in binary format and error correction codes that enable successful scanning even if a quarter of the code block is unreadable.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article Famed civil rights attorney Ben Crump was retained by the family of Gerald Neal, the bystander killed Feb. 12 during a controversial high-speed chase by Orlando police prompted by an unreadable license plate.—
Cristóbal Reyes,
Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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After years in obscure so-so movies playing Chopin and Byron, and in some respectable Merchant Ivory ones, the surprise star of last year's Four Weddings and a Funeral and this year's Nine Months and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain has lately been having a bad life.—
Candace Bushnell,
Vogue,
23 Feb. 2025
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Everything feels absurd and animated by obscure cosmic forces.—
Willing Davidson,
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2025
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The capability allowed users to encrypt almost all of their iCloud data, making messages, notes, photos and iPhone backups indecipherable, even when the information was stored in cloud computing centers.—
Tripp Mickle,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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There’s a circle with indecipherable writing on it, suspended in the center of a larger gold shape.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Mars will shrink, appearing as a faint reddish speck against the sky.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Any faint chance of heading the panel was decades away.—
David Mark,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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Hinton then offered an extremely detailed scientific explanation of why that's the case -- an explanation that would be undecipherable to anyone but an AI creator like himself.—
Josh Meyer,
USA TODAY,
4 May 2023
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When the Giants finally chose Kadarius Toney, a wide receiver from the University of Florida, with the 20th pick in the N.F.L. draft, the team’s fans in Cleveland took a good 10 seconds to start a slow clap, mouthing undecipherable questions beneath their masks.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2021
Adjective
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The next Starship test flight was previously expected to take place as early as April, although the exact timing of the flight is unclear.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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Whether exemptions will be considered for generic drugs in shortage is unclear.—
Arthur L. Kellermann,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Illegible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illegible. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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