unlistenably
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unlistenable + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]unlistenably (comparative more unlistenably, superlative most unlistenably)
- In an unlistenable way.
- 1973, Ivan Berger, “FM kits: One super turner, one super value”, in Popular Mechanics, number January 1973, →ISSN, page 187:
- Specifications for the tuners are quite close: IHF sensitivity (the minimum signal for which the tuner can deliver a 30 db signal-to-noise ratio--unlistenably noisy) is 1.75 microvolts for the Dyna...
- 1999, Andrew Blake, Living through pop, Routledge, →ISBN, page 90:
- Ayler was deemed unlistenably violent, but his playing was actually what you can hear at the ecstatic peaks of a gospel service.