unreadability

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adj.

1. Not legible or decipherable; illegible: unreadable handwriting.

2. Unsuitable for or not worth reading: unreadable prose.

3. Not interesting; dull: wholly unreadable statistics.

4. Incomprehensible; opaque: an unreadable facial expression.

un·reada·bili·ty n.

unreadable [ʌnˈriːdəb^əl]

adj

1. illegible; undecipherable

2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) difficult or tedious to read

unreadability , unreadableness n

unreadably adv

illegible, unreadable - Illegible refers to bad handwriting, while unreadable refers to poor writing.

See also related terms for poor.

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Adj.

unreadable - not easily deciphered; "indecipherable handwriting"

indecipherable, undecipherable, unclear

illegible - (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible; "illegible handwriting"

unreadable

adjective

1. turgid, heavy going, badly written, dry as dust Most computer ads used to be unreadable.

2. illegible, undecipherable, crabbed She scribbled an unreadable address on the receipt.

Translations

unreadable [ˈʌnˈriːdəbl] ADJ

1. (= turgid) [book] → imposible de leer
I found the book unreadable → el libro me resultó pesadísimo

2. (= illegible) [handwriting etc] → ilegible

3. (Comput) [data] → ilegible

4. (liter) (= impenetrable) [face, eyes] → impenetrable

unreadable

adj

writing → unleserlich; book → schwer zu lesen pred, → schwer lesbar

(Comput) data → nicht lesbar

(liter: = impenetrable) face, eyes → undurchdringlich

unreadable [ʌnˈriːdəbl] adj → illeggibile

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The joke works because Atlas Shrugged is widely understood as a cultural totem of bizarre, cultish unreadability, often by those who have never tried to get through it.

She's back: Ayn Rand is bigger than ever. But are her new fans ... by Doherty, Brian / Reason

This is not at all uncommon with so-called "omnibus" legislation, where congressmen take advantage of the length and unreadability of bills to hide spending for pet projects that might attract unwanted controversy if debated openly or in discrete pieces of legislation (the antidote for this practice, as the late Congressman Larry McDonald used to do, is to read a bill only until he found the first unconstitutional provision, then vote no.

Shock & awe economics: the Obama stimulus bill has been called "shock ... by Scaliger, Charles / The New American

The very unreadability that seems so attractive in one's (male) self seems sinister in others; one man's privacy is another woman's unreliability.

"A fine and private place": chapman's theatrical widow by Hodgson, Elizabeth / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

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