Not written clearly enough to be deciphered.
Used in a Sentence
unreadable
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for unreadable.
Editorial note
The text on the poster is unreadable, at least on my Galaxy S4.
Examples16
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
Not written clearly enough to be deciphered.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of unreadable gathered in one view.
Making an unpleasant reading experience, e.g. because it is dull or upsetting.
Not able to be accessed or played by some technical device.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for unreadable.
adjective
Not written clearly enough to be deciphered.
See also: indecipherable, illegible, unclear, undecipherable
adjective
Making an unpleasant reading experience, e.g. because it is dull or upsetting.
See also: indecipherable, illegible, unclear, undecipherable
adjective
Not able to be accessed or played by some technical device.
See also: indecipherable, illegible, unclear, undecipherable
Example sentences
The text on the poster is unreadable, at least on my Galaxy S4.
So the text is unreadable in the OS by default?
Text so small as to be unreadable, on a huge screen, was just a big red flag for me.
Woe unto the person that receives a string of completely unreadable band logos, though.
Am I the only one who finds this style of usually-just-one-sentence-per-paragraph almost completely unreadable on a visual level?
The difficulty comes when you suddenly find yourself having to debug generated code and you find that it has become impenetrable and unreadable.
Hey, just a heads up - your website is completely unreadable on mobile.
The article format is completely busted by Twitter's display rules and made unreadable.
Compared to something like python, it's unreadable and confusing.
Parts are literally unreadable for some of us.
Without the syntactic support, it becomes unreadable.
Verbose and unreadable are not contradictory descriptions.
Quote examples
Interestingly, in my firefox, the CSS style "font-weight: 100" makes the text virtually blend into the background and quite unreadable.
Even if you leave it in place for your counterparty to find, I'd bet that diffusion would render your "message" unreadable after just a few minutes.
All too much of academic writing is passive-voice-ridden "it is asserted" and "it is believed" type of writing, stuffed with scholarly citations, and utterly unreadable and useless.
I appreciated this little bit of editorializing: "The -> and doto macros save us from having to name each intermediate step and from the unreadable nesting you’d get if you tried to do the same thing in a typical curly-brace language.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use unreadable in a sentence?
The text on the poster is unreadable, at least on my Galaxy S4.
What does unreadable mean?
Not written clearly enough to be deciphered.
What part of speech is unreadable?
unreadable is commonly used as adjective.