Illegible vs. Unreadable — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Illegible and Unreadable
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Illegible
Not clear enough to be read
His handwriting is totally illegible
Unreadable
Not clear enough to read; illegible
Unreadable handwriting
Illegible
Not legible or decipherable.
Unreadable
(of data or a storage medium or device) not capable of being processed or interpreted by a computer or other electronic device.
Illegible
Not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable.
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Unreadable
Not legible or decipherable; illegible
Unreadable handwriting.
Illegible
Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription.
Unreadable
Unsuitable for or not worth reading
Unreadable prose.
Illegible
(of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible;
Illegible handwriting
Unreadable
Not interesting; dull
Wholly unreadable statistics.
Unreadable
Incomprehensible; opaque
An unreadable facial expression.
Unreadable
That cannot be read or is not easy to read.
Unreadable handwriting
A machine that cut up secret documents into small unreadable fragments
Unreadable charts
Unreadable
Not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading.
Unreadable books
Unreadable
Not able to be read—i.e. accessed or played—by some technical device.
The scratched CD is unreadable.
Unreadable
Not easily deciphered;
Indecipherable handwriting
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