unreadable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ readable

Pronunciation

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Adjective

unreadable (comparative more unreadable, superlative most unreadable)

1. That cannot be read or is not easy to read.

   unreadable handwriting

   a machine that cut up secret documents into small unreadable fragments

   unreadable charts

2. Not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading.

   unreadable books

   unreadable papers

3. Not able to be read—i.e. accessed or played—by some technical device.

   The scratched CD is unreadable.

Synonyms

• (that cannot be read or is not easy to read): illegible, indecipherable, unclear, undecipherable
• (not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading): boring, dull, tedious

Antonyms

• readable

Derived terms

• unreadability
• unreadableness

 

Translations

that cannot be read or is not easy to read

• Bulgarian: неразбираем (bg) (nerazbiraem), нечетлив (bg) (nečetliv)
• Dutch: onleesbaar (nl), onleesbare (nl)
• Finnish: lukukelvoton, mahdoton lukea
• French: illisible (fr) m or f
• German: unleserlich (de), unlesbar (de)
• Greek: δυσανάγνωστος (el) (dysanágnostos)
• Hungarian: olvashatatlan (hu), kivehetetlen (hu)
• Italian: illeggibile (it)
• Polish: nieczytelny (pl) m
• Russian: неприго́дный для чте́ния m (neprigódnyj dlja čténija), нечита́бельный (ru) m (nečitábelʹnyj)
• Spanish: ilegible (es)
• Swedish: oläslig (sv), oläsbar (sv)

not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading

• Bulgarian: безинтересен (bg) (bezinteresen)
• French: illisible (fr)
• Hungarian: unalmas (hu), érdektelen (hu), nem olvasmányos
• Italian: illeggibile (it)
• Russian: нечита́бельный (ru) m (nečitábelʹnyj), неприго́дный для чте́ния m (neprigódnyj dlja čténija),
• Swedish: oläsbar (sv), oläslig (sv)