misintelligible

English

Adjective

misintelligible (comparative more misintelligible, superlative most misintelligible)

1. (archaic) Liable to be misunderstood.
   • 1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on the Works of Robert Robinson”, in Literary Remains:

     To the same man I would give the Bible, though a very large part would be worse than unintelligible, for it would be misintelligible […]

   • 1847-1848, Thomas De Quincey, "Protestantism", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

     […] already in Scotland it is a barbarism transplanted from the filthy vocabulary of attorneys, locally called writers; secondly, because in England it is not even intelligible, and, what is worse still, sure to be misintelligible.