Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.
unreadable — index inapprehensible, pedestrian, unclear Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
unreadable — (adj.) c.1810, of written material, dull, distasteful, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + READABLE (Cf. readable). Meaning illegible is from 1830 … Etymology dictionary
unreadable — [adj] illegible cacographic, crabbed, difficult to read, hard to make out*, incomprehensible, indecipherable, scrawled, scribbled, unclear, undecipherable; concepts 535,576 … New thesaurus
unreadable — ► ADJECTIVE 1) not clear enough to read; illegible. 2) too dull or difficult to be worth reading. DERIVATIVES unreadability noun unreadably adverb … English terms dictionary
unreadable — [unrēd′ə bəl] adj. not readable; specif., a) not legible or decipherable b) too dull, difficult, etc. to be read with pleasure, comprehension, etc … English World dictionary
unreadable — [[t]ʌ̱nri͟ːdəb(ə)l[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you use unreadable to describe a book or other piece of writing, you are criticizing it because it is very boring, complicated, or difficult to understand. For some this is the greatest novel … English dictionary
unreadable — unreadability, unreadableness, n. unreadably, adv. /un ree deuh beuhl/, adj. 1. not readable; undecipherable; scribbled: His scrawl was almost unreadable. 2. not interesting to read; dull; tedious; an unreadable treatise. 3. extraordinarily… … Universalium
unreadable — un|read|a|ble [ ʌn ridəbl ] adjective 1. ) an unreadable book is very difficult to read, for example because it is not very good or the subject is too complicated 2. ) unreadable writing or printing is impossible to read because it is very small… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
unreadable — UK [ʌnˈriːdəb(ə)l] / US [ʌnˈrɪdəb(ə)l] adjective 1) mainly literary if someone s face, eyes, or expression are unreadable, you cannot guess what they are thinking 2) unreadable writing or printing is impossible to read because it is very small or … English dictionary
unreadable — adjective a) That cannot be read or is not easy to read. unreadable handwriting b) Not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading. a machine that cut up secret documents into small unreadable fragments Syn: illegible, indecipherable, unc … Wiktionary
