illegible

See also: illégible

English

Etymology

From il- +‎ legible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɛd͡ʒəbəl/

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Adjective

illegible (comparative more illegible, superlative most illegible)

1. Not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable.

   Antonym: legible

   illegible handwriting

   illegible scribbles

   illegible symbols

   illegible writing

Synonyms

• dirty
• foul
• indecipherable
• marked-up
• unclear
• undecipherable
• unreadable

Derived terms

• illegibleness
• illegibly

Translations

not clear enough to be read

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: неразборлівы (njerazbórlivy)
• Bulgarian: нечетлив (bg) (nečetliv)
• Catalan: illegible (ca), il·legible (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 難以辨認的 / 难以辨认的 (nányǐ biànrèn de), 很難看懂的 / 很难看懂的 (hěn nán kàndǒng de)

• Czech: nečitelný (cs) m
• Dutch: onleesbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: nelegebla
• Finnish: lukukelvoton
• French: illisible (fr), indéchiffrable (fr), illégible (fr) (rare)
• Galician: ilexible (gl)
• German: unleserlich (de)
• Hungarian: olvashatatlan (hu)
• Icelandic: ólæsilegur
• Italian: illeggibile (it)
• Japanese: 読めない (ja) (yomenai), 汚い (ja) (kitanai)
• Luxembourgish: onlieserlech
• Macedonian: нечитлив (nečitliv)
• Polish: nieczytelny (pl) m
• Portuguese: ilegível (pt)
• Romanian: ilizibil (ro)
• Russian: неразбо́рчивый (ru) (nerazbórčivyj), нечёткий (ru) (nečótkij)
• Spanish: ilegible (es), indescifrable
• Swedish: oläsbar (sv)
• Turkish: okunaksız (tr), kargacık burgacık (tr)
• Ukrainian: нерозбі́рливий (nerozbírlyvyj)

See also

• eligible

Catalan

Alternative forms

• il·legible

Etymology

From il- +‎ llegible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [i.ʎəˈʒib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [i.ʎeˈd͡ʒi.ble]

Adjective

illegible m or f (masculine and feminine plural illegibles)

1. illegible

Derived terms

• illegibilitat

Further reading

• “illegible”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “illegible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “illegible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.