barely coherent
Frequency: 6.24.8 per million words
Indicates a minimal, almost non-existent level of coherence.
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Examples (10)
- He sounded barely coherent on the phone.
- After a few too many drinks, his speech became barely coherent.
- The witness was in shock, her testimony a barely coherent whisper.
- Woken up in the middle of the night, my explanation was barely coherent.
- The patient, burning with fever, muttered a few barely coherent sentences.
- Sobbing uncontrollably, he managed to gasp out a barely coherent account of what had happened.
- The toddler's attempts to tell a story were enthusiastic but barely coherent.
- To the layman, the complex scientific paper was barely coherent.
- The transmission from the damaged spaceship was barely coherent, filled with static.
- His early notes for the novel were a jumble of barely coherent ideas.