unreadably
- adverb
- /ʌnˈrɛdəbli/
:
ilegiblemente
- The instructions were written in a font that was unreadably small, making them impossible to follow.
Examples
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He did an eight-pager, a one-shot, and a two-part inventory story (that got burned off as an annual, with unreadably terrible art).
Blog text (17) -
By the time those copyrights expire, the file formats will have been unreadably obsolete for decades.
Blog text (25) -
She is standing before a simple block of granite, which measures 4' by 4' by 4', and features a small plaque bearing an inscription in unreadably small letters.
Academic text (2007) -
He wore the headscarf, too, spilling loosely across his shoulders, and Heikki saw Alexieva's grim face shift slightly, unreadably, as the younger man came forward to greet them.
Fiction book (1990) -
Despite his best efforts, the handwriting remained unreadably smudged and unclear after the rain.
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The document was so poorly scanned that the text appeared unreadably blurry on the screen.
Synonyms
2
8.1
In a way that is very hard to understand
2
8.0
It is very hard to understand
1
6.5
In a way that is hard for others to read
So unclear that people cannot read or understand it
In a way people cannot read or understand
Antonyms
How Readable
Surface Forms
Morphology
unreadably = unreadable (transparent) = un + read + able + ly
Standard adjectival to adverbial derivation by adding '-ly' to 'unreadable', preserving meaning.
Etymology
The word unreadably starts with un- 'not', has read 'to look at and understand words', and ends with -able 'can' plus -ly which makes it describe how something is done. So it means 'in a way that cannot be read', which is why we use it for handwriting or text that is impossible or very hard to read.