unintelligible

adjective

Meaning

Impossible to understand or comprehend because the sound is unclear, the handwriting is messy, or the language is too complex.

Examples

  • His speech was slurred and unintelligible after he had been awake for nearly forty hours.
  • The ancient manuscript was written in an unintelligible script that no historian could decode.

Synonyms: unclear, mumbled, incoherent, indecipherable, inarticulate