hieroglyph
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- noun
- /ˈhaɪəroʊˌɡlɪf/
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- There are no written records that have been found, but there may be a form of hieroglyphs on these pillars that look like. I don't know if you can see this.
The problem is it's like reading hieroglyphs.
- The problem is it's like reading hieroglyphs.
Examples
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The hieroglyph for open burned in the middle of the scroll, and Walt handed it back to me.
Blog text (10) -
The hieroglyphs are a little difficult to make out... but the story's all here.
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Give it a hieroglyph, not a word.
Fiction book (1993) -
But he shows up as the hieroglyph of Mars in a number of contexts.
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The shelves are an elaborate hieroglyph of my life that only I can read, and that will be destroyed after my death.
Blog text (9) -
In your atrophied eyes, the letters read like a line of alien hieroglyphs.
Fiction book (1999) -
He gives accounts in his confession of spirits engaged in battle, blood on the corn and hieroglyphs on leaves that told him what to do.
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His papers and calculations looked like little hieroglyphs, and in the end they drove the nails into the coffin Wheeler had assembled.
Academic text (1991) -
To the layperson, hieroglyphs seem indecipherable and mysterious, and this, along with the immense pyramids and magnificent temples,
Academic text (2004) -
The ancient carvings on the temple walls appear as a complex hieroglyph that is hard to interpret.
Synonyms
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Writing that is hard to read or understand
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Messy handwriting that is hard to read
Writing that is hard to read because it looks like picture signs
How Legible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
People also call any written mark or handwriting that is hard to read a hieroglyph because it looks like a carved picture you cannot understand. So this modern use means a written character or mark that is difficult to read.