(a.) Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gomatraciens awoke one July morning to an indecipherable low rumble as hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus shuffled through the town, broken, exhausted and silent as they fled the Tutsi rebel victory across the border.
(2) He screams some indecipherable lines from the front row before clambering back onstage to whip his hair like a metaller.
(3) It's really easy to get carried away by the science and use technical vocabulary and indecipherable acronyms.
(4) He glances around the room, with its indecipherable glyph-strewn whiteboards.
(5) A decade later when I met him again in a hotel suite in London, it was more Mona Lisa than Cheshire Cat - coolly supercilious, ultimately indecipherable.
(6) It’s not about a platform to which no one hews, or about some words on a teleprompter, or even some indecipherable language in a bill.
(7) Not only is this an interesting location, it's also a good place for non-Japanese speakers to take a break from the aisles of aisles of indecipherable domestic games.
(8) You will see greatly reduced resources available to make critical legal needs across the United States.” Advocates say legal services funding is essential because equality before the law is not possible in a system that is indecipherable for non-professionals and in which one side almost always has lawyers while the other side almost always does not.
(9) Meanwhile, the crackling was so bad I could hardly use it – and messages left were indecipherable, leading me to exceed my limit on my mobile phone.
(10) And, the biggest group this, there are Polish and eastern European builders, shouting indecipherable jokes, ready for their prompt Saturday morning start, jumping off to plaster and marble and artfully distress the kitchens and bathrooms of the £10m houses that edge the heath along this route.
(11) "And so immediately thereafter," she says, "all of the toys began to have shows associated with them, and the ties between the toy industry and the entertainment industry became virtually indecipherable.
(12) Called the Jolly Roger, its walls were lined with real cutlasses and its leatherette-bound menus were decorated with compass points and written in an indecipherable copperplate script that made ordering an ice-cream float feel like a hunt for buried treasure.
(13) His handwriting, which I knew before meeting him (having seen it in facsimiles, in autographs), had become almost indecipherable, but its message was as luminous as can be: "My deceased, you may imagine, are all those ancestors I remember (very few) and all those I am unable to (the great majority).
(14) If it's not an error quite up there with that of the London gopher who, tasked with processing Robert Capa 's photographs from the Normandy landings, went for a too-liquid lunch and left them in the drying-oven an hour too long and thus rendered them all but indecipherable, it still, historically, irks.
(15) The Fabian report has some interesting analysis, but no solutions other than chasing an indecipherable “cultural ‘middle’”.
(16) I filled endless diary pages, sent snail mail to several pen pals, even invented secret symbols to ensure notes passed in the classroom were indecipherable by enemy eyes.
Unreadable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Their activities, for the most part undocumented, have been forgotten or taken for granted, and notes, if written, remain unread.
(2) A toe-curling pause followed and Achebe's family looked on with unreadable expressions.
(3) The proportion of unreadable ultrasound results increased linearly with increase in skin thickness and the variance of ultrasound readings increased as inflammatory skin thickness increased; by contrast caliper variance remained constant.
(4) Lenin used to get cross with young Bolsheviks visiting him in exile, during the inter-revolutionary years between 1905 and 1917, when they teased him about Chernyshevsky’s book and told him it was unreadable.
(5) The compound that oversaw industry during the boom years now has a fading, almost unreadable sign and a deathly hush.
(6) In seven, very strong non-specific fluorescence made the result unreadable.
(7) Intelligence such as the Phoenix memo – which warned in July 2001 that terrorist suspects had been in flight schools and urgently requested further investigation – went unread.
(8) The most unreadable books I have read recently were Stephenie Meyer 's Twilight series.
(9) In this photograph, however, his face is an unreadable mask.
(10) The lawyer said Baluchi turned the book over to him, unread.
(11) Similarly, drawing on Henley Centre research, he says every home has a filter point — whether it is the kitchen table, or the bowl containing the keys by the front door, at which unsolicted material get stopped, and as such literature mounts in an election it remains increasingly unread.
(12) The clinical severity of those with unreadable roentgenograms was significantly greater.
(13) It is clear that we need to rethink law, entitlements and institutions around how we regulate information, without consenting to untold pages of unread, non-negotiable, we’ll-take-everything-but-your-firstborn-child terms and conditions.
(14) The only listing for a piece of paper reads: “1-white piece of paper with BREEZO & tel#329-4789 and unreadable printing on the obverse side.” When contacted by the Guardian, Boyd’s cousin Joe Kelly recalled the slip of paper with the FedEx stamp.
(15) And could we, maybe, identify some of those earlier, unreadable Bookers, to which Rimington and Mullin intend to be the corrective?
(16) A shelf with unread books Toby: Isn’t the future of libraries dependent on not having gatekeepers who are scary, on libraries not looking ancient, and not being about distant, old knowledge?
(17) Panicking that she may be discharged before engineering their reunion, she forcibly ruptures her wound to prolong her stay - a feat of self-harm almost unreadable for its violence, and ultimate futility.
(18) "A map that tries to answer every question for every person is effectively unreadable."
(19) However approximately 5% of the sera were positive by ELISA and the EIF test while the CF test result was either negative or unreadable because of serum anticomplementary activity.
(20) It is anyway increasingly clear that Lord Justice Leveson is aware that all previous proposals on press reform lie unread and unimplemented on the bottom shelf – just like the Calcutt report.