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Meaning of misintelligible | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Liable to be misunderstood.

archaic

Examples

“To the same man I would give the Bible, though a very large part would be worse than unintelligible, for it would be misintelligible […]”

“1847-1848, Thomas De Quincey, "Protestantism", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine […] already in Scotland it is a barbarism transplanted from the filthy vocabulary of attorneys, locally called writers; secondly, because in England it is not even intelligible, and, what is worse still, sure to be misintelligible.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

misintended misinterpretable miskeen Miskito misknit misknitted