"unreadable" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unreadable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more unreadable [comparative], most unreadable [superlative]
Etymology: un- + readable Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|readable}} un- + readable Head templates: {{en-adj}} unreadable (comparative more unreadable, superlative most unreadable)
  1. That cannot be read or is not easy to read. Synonyms (that cannot be read or is not easy to read): illegible, indecipherable, unclear, undecipherable Translations (that cannot be read or is not easy to read): неразбираем (nerazbiraem) (Bulgarian), нечетлив (nečetliv) (Bulgarian), onleesbaar (Dutch), onleesbare (Dutch), lukukelvoton (Finnish), mahdoton lukea (Finnish), illisible [feminine, masculine] (French), unleserlich (German), unlesbar (German), δυσανάγνωστος (dysanágnostos) (Greek), olvashatatlan (Hungarian), kivehetetlen (Hungarian), illeggibile (Italian), nieczytelny [masculine] (Polish), неприго́дный для чте́ния (neprigódnyj dlja čténija) [masculine] (Russian), нечита́бельный (nečitábelʹnyj) [masculine] (Russian), ilegible (Spanish), oläslig (Swedish), oläsbar (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-unreadable-en-adj-9TjeNATb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 37 32 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 38 38 25 Disambiguation of 'that cannot be read or is not easy to read': 82 9 9 Disambiguation of 'that cannot be read or is not easy to read': 82 9 9
  2. Not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading. Synonyms (not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading): boring, dull, tedious Translations (not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading): безинтересен (bezinteresen) (Bulgarian), illisible (French), unalmas (Hungarian), érdektelen (Hungarian), nem olvasmányos (Hungarian), illeggibile (Italian), нечита́бельный (nečitábelʹnyj) [masculine] (Russian), неприго́дный для чте́ния (neprigódnyj dlja čténija) [masculine] (Russian), oläsbar (Swedish), oläslig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-unreadable-en-adj-MuBX3J8R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 37 32 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 38 38 25 Disambiguation of 'not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading': 8 84 9 Disambiguation of 'not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading': 7 84 9
  3. Not able to be read—i.e. accessed or played—by some technical device.
    Sense id: en-unreadable-en-adj-6H3S0JJ1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 37 32 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 38 38 25
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: unreadability, unreadableness

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          "text": "The scratched CD is unreadable."
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      "sense": "that cannot be read or is not easy to read",
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      "sense": "that cannot be read or is not easy to read",
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      "sense": "that cannot be read or is not easy to read",
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      "sense": "that cannot be read or is not easy to read",
      "word": "oläslig"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "that cannot be read or is not easy to read",
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "bezinteresen",
      "sense": "not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading",
      "word": "безинтересен"
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      "sense": "not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading",
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    {
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading",
      "word": "unalmas"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading",
      "word": "érdektelen"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading",
      "word": "nem olvasmányos"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading",
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      "roman": "nečitábelʹnyj",
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    {
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      "roman": "neprigódnyj dlja čténija",
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      "word": "неприго́дный для чте́ния"
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      "sense": "not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading",
      "word": "oläsbar"
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      "sense": "not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading",
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  "word": "unreadable"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.