unreadability
Beyond comprehension visually
Unreadability is the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
Text may have unreadability due to poor handwriting, damaged print, or corrupted data.
Writing may suffer from unreadability when it's unclear, jargon-laden, or badly organized: The contract's unreadability was clearly intentional.
The word also applies to faces or expressions that reveal nothing: His unreadability at the poker table was legendary.
Careless, illegible writing
- scribbleWrite without care
- smudgeUnclear dirty mark
- blurredIndistinct, lacking clarity
- faintWeak and indistinct
handwriting · cursive · inkblot · messy · smeared · scratchy · illegible · indecipherable
Specialized professional vocabulary
- technicalOf specific methods
- academicRelating to education or theory
- convolutedExcessively complex or twisted
- abstruseDifficult to comprehend
esoteric · byzantine · tortuous · dense · impenetrable · labyrinthine · intricate · overwrought
Meaningless words or actions
- gobbledygookPretentious unintelligible language
- gibberishUnintelligible speech or writing
- garbledConfused and unintelligible
- scrambledMixed into disorder
unintelligible · incoherent · jumbled · mangled · corrupted · glitched · babble · drivel
Crowded with disorder
- crampedUncomfortably lacking space
- denseClosely packed together
- unformattedNot styled or arranged
- tinyExtremely small in size
minuscule · faded · pixelated · distorted · misaligned · overlapping · truncated
More words than necessary
- wordyUsing more language than necessary
- prolixExcessively wordy in speech
- turgidSwollen or pompous
- overwrittenReplaced with new data
rambling · long-winded · circumlocutory · bloated · meandering · padded · repetitive · exhausting
scrawl
Careless, illegible writing
faint · handwriting · cursive · inkblot · messy · smeared · scratchy · illegible · indecipherable · undecipherable
jargon
Specialized professional vocabulary
- technicalOf specific methods
- academicRelating to education or theory
- convolutedExcessively complex or twisted
abstruse · esoteric · byzantine · tortuous · dense · impenetrable · labyrinthine · intricate · overwrought · obfuscated
nonsense
Meaningless words or actions
- gobbledygookPretentious unintelligible language
- gibberishUnintelligible speech or writing
- garbledConfused and unintelligible
scrambled · unintelligible · incoherent · jumbled · mangled · corrupted · glitched · babble · drivel
cluttered
Crowded with disorder
- crampedUncomfortably lacking space
- denseClosely packed together
- unformattedNot styled or arranged
tiny · minuscule · faded · pixelated · distorted · misaligned · overlapping · truncated
verbose
More words than necessary
overwritten · rambling · long-winded · circumlocutory · bloated · meandering · padded · repetitive · exhausting · interminable
- inscrutabilitymystery, enigma, opacity, impenetrability, incomprehensibility
unreadabilitylegibility
Clearness of text
readability · clarity · decipherability · distinctness · sharpness
unreadabilitycomprehensibility
Clarity of meaning
intelligibility · readability · clarity · lucidity · understandability
unreadabilityreadability
Ease of understanding text
engagingness · accessibility · compulsiveness · enjoyability · grippingness
read, reading, reader, reads, unread, reread, misread, readable, unreadable