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In current use what is illegible is not clear enough to be decipherable (as in illegible handwriting), and what is unreadable can be physically read but is too dull to be worth reading or too difficult to be understood.

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adj

Definition: unreadable
Antonyms: decipherable, legible, readable, understandable

IN BRIEF: Hard or impossible to read.

The doctor's signature was completely illegible

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - ulæselig

Nederlands (Dutch)
onleesbaar

Français (French)
adj. - illisible

Deutsch (German)
adj. - unleserlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - δυσανάγνωστος

Italiano (Italian)
illeggibile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - ilegível

Русский (Russian)
неразборчивый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - ilegible

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - oläsbar

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
难辨认的, 字迹模糊的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 難辨認的, 字跡模糊的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 읽기 어려운, 불명료한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 読みにくい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) غير مقروء‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮לא-קריא, לא ניתן להבחנה‬

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