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UNINTELLIGIBLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unintelligibly mean?
• UNINTELLIGIBLY (adverb)
The adverb UNINTELLIGIBLY has 1 sense:
1. in an unintelligible manner
Familiarity information: UNINTELLIGIBLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an unintelligible manner
Synonyms:
unintelligibly; ununderstandably
Context example:
the foreigners spoke unintelligibly
Antonym:
intelligibly (in an intelligible manner)
Pertainym:
unintelligible (poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise)
Context examples
He had known many disagreeable fathers before, and often been struck with the inconveniences they occasioned, but never, in the whole course of his life, had he seen one of that class so unintelligibly moral, so infamously tyrannical as Sir Thomas.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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