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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
Maurice Blanchot

Meaning of "unreadable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNREADABLE

unreadable  [ʌnˈriːdəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNREADABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unreadable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNREADABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Readability

Readability is the ease with which text can be read and understood. Various factors to measure readability have been used, such as "speed of perception," "perceptibility at a distance," "perceptibility in peripheral vision," "visibility," "the reflex blink technique," "rate of work", "eye movements," and "fatigue in reading." Readability is distinguished from legibility which is a measure of how easily individual letters or characters can be distinguished from each other. Readability can determine the ease in which computer program code can be read by humans, such as through embedded documentation.

Definition of unreadable in the English dictionary

The definition of unreadable in the dictionary is illegible; undecipherable. Other definition of unreadable is difficult or tedious to read.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNREADABLE


affordable
əˈfɔːdəbəl
applaudable
əˈplɔːdəbəl
exceedable
ɪkˈsiːdəbəl
excludable
ɪkˈskluːdəbəl
extrudable
ɪkˈstruːdəbəl
feedable
ˈfiːdəbəl
impleadable
ɪmˈpliːdəbəl
inaudible
ɪnˈɔːdəbəl
includable
ɪnˈkluːdəbəl
ineludible
ˌɪnɪˈluːdəbəl
kneadable
ˈniːdəbəl
laudable
ˈlɔːdəbəl
pleadable
ˈpliːdəbəl
protrudable
prəˈtruːdəbəl
readable
ˈriːdəbəl
recordable
rɪˈkɔːdəbəl
regardable
rɪˈɡɑːdəbəl
succeedable
səkˈsiːdəbəl
supersedable
ˌsuːpəˈsiːdəbəl
unaffordable
ˌʌnəˈfɔːdəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNREADABLE

unreachable
unreached
unreactive
unread
unreadability
unreadableness
unreadably
unreadily
unreadiness
unready
unreal
unrealisable
unrealised
unrealism
unrealistic
unrealistically
unreality
unrealizable
unrealize
unrealized

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNREADABLE

able
avoidable
bendable
biodegradable
buildable
commendable
dependable
downloadable
expandable
expendable
extendable
foldable
formidable
gradable
lendable
refundable
tradable
unavoidable
understandable
upgradable
weldable

Synonyms and antonyms of unreadable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNREADABLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unreadable» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unreadable

Translation of «unreadable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNREADABLE

Find out the translation of unreadable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unreadable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unreadable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不可读
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ilegibles
570 millions of speakers

English

unreadable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपठनीय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير قابل للقراءة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нечитаемым
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ilegível
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপাঠ্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

illisible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak boleh dibaca
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unleserlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

読めない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

읽을 수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora bisa diwaca
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đọc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

படிக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अवाचनीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

okunamayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

illeggibile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieczytelny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нечитабельним
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

imposibil de citit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δυσανάγνωστο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

deurmekaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oläsbar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uleselig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unreadable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNREADABLE»

The term «unreadable» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.801 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNREADABLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «unreadable» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «unreadable» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unreadable

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QUOTES WITH «UNREADABLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unreadable.
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Maurice Blanchot
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNREADABLE»

Discover the use of unreadable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unreadable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The unreadable shores of love: Turkish modernity and mystic ...
Many of her analyses are scintillating. . . . The Holbrook volume is a landmark in Ottoman literary scholarship.
Victoria Rowe Holbrook, 1994
2
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
An. Unreadable. Report: Conrad's. Heart. of. Darkness. We need now to consider a number of the issues we have raised, concerning endings, authority, repetition, and the transaction of narratives, in the context of the "crisis" in the ...
Peter Brooks, 1992
3
Digital Teleretinal Screening: Teleophthalmology in Practice
One of the concerns when using fundus photogra- phy outside of the traditional eye care arena has been the potential for a large proportion of unreadable images. The relatively low rate of unreadable images with our system indicates that the ...
Kanagasingam Yogesan, Leonard Goldschmidt, Jorge Cuadros, 2012
4
Sad Macs, Bombs and Other Disasters
This disk is unreadable by this Macintosh. Do you want to Initialize the disk? Name: Format: Macintosh 1.4MB Figure 5-14 Disk is unreadable message. Don't give up-your disk may be perfectly OK. For unformatted disks The messages that the ...
Ted Landau, 2000
5
Pro Open Source Mail: Building an Enterprise Mail Solution
What, exactly, constitutes unreadable e-mail can be a hotly debated conversation . However, choosing certain unreadable character sets potentially used in an e- mail message is a good start. For instance, for English-speaking readers, e-mail ...
Curtis Smith, 2006
6
Covered Wagon Women: 1853-1854
[unreadable] similar to yesterday [unreadable] AM. Camped [unreadable] Went about 9 miles before dinner Crossed the river after dinner & went down about 6 miles & camped on the north bank (north west) in a very pretty place. It seems so  ...
Kenneth L. Holmes, David Duniway, 1995
7
The SS Brotherhood of the Bell: NASA's Nazis, JFK, and Majic-12
In consonance with your instructions, advisors from State, Treasury, War and Navy Departments [unreadable] on a tour and fact finding mission concerning the reality of other-world [unreadable]. [Unreadable] principle (sic) areas were visited .
Joseph P. Farrell, 2006
8
The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle
Peter N. was a friend in the right place, at the right time, p[ar]tly through his influence I got the old poor gray [pony] to ride from a [unreadable]. I paid him ten dollars [unreadable] for [his] pony. I never [ unreadable] my brains faster in my life  ...
Allan C. Richard, Mary Margaret Richard, 2004
9
Practical Common Lisp
To make implementing such methods easier, Common Lisp provides the macro PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJ ECT.5 The basic form of PRINT—UNREADABLE— OBJECT is as follows: (print-unreadable-object (object stream-variable 81key type ...
Peter Seibel, 2005
10
Fall of Eden: The Healing Crystal, Book Two
She stared off into space for a moment and then said, “According to our first Og, dated ATD 83-11-15, Miral Amanda wrote, 'We located Charles in the decimated buildings of— unreadable. We used the last of our ammunition and seven men ...
Michele Poague, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNREADABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unreadable is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Unreadable Rachel
Next week we'll have our Bachelorette finale. Thank God, because it's getting incredibly boring over there on network TV. And while that's a merciless recap for ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
2
5 Unreadable Indian Academics & Writers You Should Be Wary Of
Big words, colons in place of full-stops, even bigger words and more colons. The text goes on and on. And you're not sure if you are just meandering or ... «Swarajya, Jun 15»
3
Here's Where Your Letters Go if Your Handwriting Is Terrible
It seems absurd that this would be the only place in the nation where unreadable mail is deciphered, yet all but one of these specialized mail centers have ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
4
The Familiar by Mark Z Danielewski review – what the font is going …
But the problem with The Familiar isn't that it's difficult; it's that it's unreadable. Take away the typographical gimmicks, the frequently unfathomable dialogue, and ... «The Guardian, May 15»
5
Katie Hopkins and The Sun: when the unreadable prints the …
We believe in the free flow of information. We use a Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives license, so you can republish our articles for free, online or in ... «The Conversation UK, Apr 15»
6
An unreadable reality: 21 million children in ME may 'miss education'
The governments need to urgently scale up their efforts, notably to prioritise the education needs of vulnerable and disadvantaged families, urged the report. «Al-Bawaba, Apr 15»
7
Answer Man: Cellular Center sign unreadable during day?
Today's batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: Why is the new sign on the U.S. Cellular Center unreadable during the ... «Asheville Citizen-Times, Mar 15»
8
Maloney High School in Meriden closed due to unreadable air …
During the renovation, air samples were unreadable and the building had to be closed, according to DPH officials. More tests will be performed by crews before ... «WFSB, Dec 14»
9
People Are Complaining the Torture Report Is 'Unreadable' on …
But the report is “unreadable” on the Kindle, according to customer reviews. One verified purchaser said “don't waste your money — unreadable on a kindle. «TIME, Dec 14»
10
Eric Roston: Everything we know about climate change. In one …
Eric Roston: Everything we know about climate change. In one unreadable pile. Every six years. Republish Reprint · Republish Online · Republish Offline. «National Post, Oct 14»

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