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单词 misintelligible
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misintelligibleadj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix1, intelligible adj.
Etymology: < mis- prefix1 + intelligible adj., probably after misintelligence n.
Obsolete. rare.
Capable of being wrongly understood; easily misunderstood.
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1815 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. 4244 A thing which is the more misintelligible for being unintelligible.
1847 T. De Quincey Protestantism in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 758/1 It is not even intelligible, and, what is worse still, sure to be mis-intelligible.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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