Synonyms for indecipherable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : in-di-sahy-fer-uh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn dɪˈsaɪ fər ə bəl


Définition of indecipherable

Origin :
  • 1802, from in- (1) "not" + decipherable (see decipher). Related: Indecipherability.
  • adj unreadable
Example sentences :
  • A welter of indecipherable radio and communication-screen signals.
  • Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
  • He had almost entirely deciphered the indecipherable document.
  • Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne
  • It is so tattered that one stanza, the last, is indecipherable and had to be omitted.
  • Extract from : « Poems of American History » by Various
  • Inside this stood a building the name of which is indecipherable.
  • Extract from : « Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria » by Lewis Spence
  • And then, I am sorry to say, the cryptogram is indecipherable.
  • Extract from : « Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon » by Jules Verne
  • But until the discovery of the conclusion, its meaning and character were indecipherable.
  • Extract from : « Patriarchal Palestine » by Archibald Henry Sayce
  • A waving of indecipherable shapes, a blow, and a concussion.
  • Extract from : « The Invisible Man » by H. G. Wells
  • Although Valentine and his two comrades might interrogate the desert, it remained dumb and indecipherable as a closed book.
  • Extract from : « The Pirates of the Prairies » by Gustave Aimard
  • And what a strange and indecipherable "crypto-porticus" would the "Twopenny Tube" prove to some future Middleton of the ages?
  • Extract from : « Highways and Byways in London » by Mrs. E. T. Cook.
  • Some pictures on the wall were indecipherable beneath streaked reflections.
  • Extract from : « The Narrow House » by Evelyn Scott

Antonyms for indecipherable

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