unintelligiblyadv.
/ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlᵻdʒᵻbli/, U.S. /ˌənᵻnˈtɛlədʒəbli/ (un- prefix1 5.)
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [adverb]
inscrutably1597
unknownly1611
inaccessibly1621
over a person's heada1626
unconceivably1630
indiscernibly1636
unintelligibly1664
unimaginably1666
unsearchably1706
impenetrably1759
unfathomablya1822
unrecognizably1836
incomprehensibly1863
untraceably1875
indigestibly1977
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. B4 Motion may be both invisibly and unintelligibly slow, as well as swift.
1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous ii. 70 You talk unintelligibly, instead of forming a reasonable Hypothesis.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. v. 107 He..hurried unintelligibly over some lines, and..offered her a pen.
1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. 184 The second occasion of our being apt to write unintelligibly.
1892 I. Zangwill Big Bow Myst. 171 To assassinate secretly, mysteriously, unintelligibly, undiscoverably.
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