misintelligible

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adjective

Liable to be misunderstood.

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Meanings

adjectivemisintelligible (comparative more misintelligible, superlative most misintelligible)

comparative more misintelligible · superlative most misintelligible

  1. archaicLiable to be misunderstood.

    To the same man I would give the Bible, though a very large part would be worse than unintelligible, for it would be misintelligible […]

    1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on the Works of Robert Robinson”, in Literary Remains
    1 more example

    1847-1848, Thomas De Quincey, "Protestantism", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine […] already in Scotland it is a barbarism transplanted from the filthy vocabulary of attorneys, locally called writers; secondly, because in England it is not even intelligible, and, what is worse still, sure to be misintelligible.

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APA

misintelligible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misintelligible

MLA

“misintelligible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misintelligible. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misintelligible,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misintelligible.

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