virtually unintelligible

Frequency: 6.29.5 per million words

Another way to say something is almost or nearly impossible to understand.

unintelligibleADVERB + unintelligible

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virtually

Examples (10)

  • The recording quality was so poor that the speech was virtually unintelligible.
  • His hasty handwriting is virtually unintelligible to anyone but himself.
  • Without subtitles, the local dialect was virtually unintelligible to me.
  • The ancient manuscript had faded, rendering the text virtually unintelligible.
  • Heavy static made the pilot's radio transmission virtually unintelligible.
  • She mumbled her apology into her chest, making it virtually unintelligible.
  • The dense technical jargon made the explanation virtually unintelligible to laypeople.
  • Due to the loud background noise, the station announcement was virtually unintelligible.
  • The code was written so chaotically that it was virtually unintelligible.
  • After the dental surgery, his swollen speech was virtually unintelligible.