adjective
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a series of unintelligible syllables
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Her note was practically unintelligible .
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I liked the music but the lyrics were completely unintelligible .
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Joe muttered something unintelligible , clasping his head in his hands.
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Radio transmissions were often cut off or unintelligible .
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A major obstacle to understanding is the use of technical jargon which is unintelligible to the buyer.
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Dolphin sounds are unintelligible to humans, and cover a larger range of frequencies than we can hear or differentiate.
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It becomes permissible to import toilers with swarthy skins who speak unintelligible languages.
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Jargon words usually sound ugly and unintelligible to outsiders.
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Most of the discussion would have been marvellously unintelligible in a Basildon supermarket or in a pub in Barrow-in-Furness.
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Readers may still find, as I do, that some of the economic debate is unintelligible .
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Sometimes, even speech in an unintelligible foreign language can be illuminating.
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Under these conditions new, mutually unintelligible languages will eventually arise.