unintelligibly

In garbled fashion

In a way that cannot be understood.

Speech becomes unintelligible when slurred, mumbled, or drowned out by noise: He muttered unintelligibly into his pillow.

Writing is unintelligible when poorly formed or in an unknown script.

The word applies to anything meant to communicate but failing to do so.

garbled

incoherently

In an illogical manner

scrambled · jumbled · distorted · disjointed · muddled · confusedly · chaotically · disjointedly · brokenly · mangled

accented

incomprehensibly

Beyond capacity to grasp

pidgin · stilted · falteringly · unfamiliarly · exotically

mumbled

indistinctly

In an unclear manner

muttered · whispered · slurred · sotto voce · under one's breath · faintly · softly · breathily · haltingly · stammered

technical

abstrusely

In obscure manner

cryptically · opaquely · impenetrably · densely

Opposites
comprehensibility

unintelligiblyintelligibly

In understandable manner

clearly · understandably · lucidly · coherently · articulately

Family

unintelligible, unintelligibility

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