unreadable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ readable

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

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

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

not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading

• French: illisible (fr)
• Hungarian: unalmas (hu), érdektelen (hu), nem olvasmányos
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• Italian: illeggibile (it)
• Russian: нечита́бельный (ru) m (nečitábelʹnyj), неприго́дный для чте́ния m (neprigódnyj dlja čténija),