illegible handwriting
Indecipherable written marks
Illegible handwriting is writing by hand that cannot be read or deciphered.
The phrase often appears in complaints about doctors' prescriptions, hastily written notes, or poor penmanship generally: Her illegible handwriting made the form impossible to process.
Someone with illegible handwriting produces text that others struggle to interpret.
- scrawlCareless, illegible writing
- chicken scratchIllegible, messy handwriting
- messyLacking order or neatness
- unreadableCannot be deciphered
- cursiveJoined handwriting style
hard to read · smudged · doctor · doctor's note · prescription · sloppy · scribble · pen · ink · cramped · rushed · squiggly · hieroglyphics · decipher · loopy · faded · blurred · scratchy
- hard to readblurry text, faded print, blurred, smudged, faded
- instruction failuresmisread, misunderstood, skipped step, wrong order, jumped ahead
- readability problemslow contrast, wall of text, blurry text, faded print
- medication errorswrong dose, wrong route, wrong time, prescription error, overdose
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