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indecipherable

adj
/ɪndɪˈsaɪfəɹəbəl/

Etymology

From in- + decipherable.

Definitions

  1. Not decipherable

    Not decipherable; impossible to decode, read, understand or comprehend.

    • The doctor's handwriting was indecipherable.
    • The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]
    • One of the last remaining members of the Navajo Code Talkers, who used their difficult-to-learn language to form an indecipherable code that helped the Allies win World War II, has died.

  2. Indistinguishable

    • If you knew who Jerry was you'd swear you'd been cloned. Your posting style is virtually indecipherable from his.
    • A British university compared lads' mags with comments from convicted rapists. It found that people could not distinguish the source of the comments. That is, Zoo uses language practically indecipherable from that of sex offenders.

The neighborhood

Derived

indecipherability, indecipherableness, indecipherably

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at indecipherable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at indecipherable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at indecipherable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA