barely coherent

Frequency: 6.24.8 per million words

Indicates a minimal, almost non-existent level of coherence.

Categories:

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.