unreadable
adjEtymology From un- + readable.
1
Not written clearly enough to be deciphered.
- unreadable handwriting
- unreadable charts
2 more examples
- a machine that cut up secret documents into small unreadable fragments
- Although the kyūjitai kanji were not banned, the obsolete kyūjitai kanji have become unreadable to more and more readers over time, thus making texts including them difficult for modern readers, but at least there is a recognized mapping from new form to old form.2020, Stewart Arneil, “Encoding Disappearing Characters: The Case of Twentieth-Century Japanese-Canadian Names”, in Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, number 12, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, →DOI, →ISSN:
2
Making an unpleasant reading experience, e.g. because it is dull or upsetting.
- an unreadable book
- unreadable rants
3
Not able to be accessed or played by some technical device.
- The scratched CD is unreadable.
- Antonyms
- readable
- Derived terms
- unreadability, unreadableness, unreadably