Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section I. Nature of Ideas Communicated

519. Unintelligibility.

   NOUN:UNINTELLIGIBILITY, incomprehensibility, imperspicuity [rare]; inconceivableness, unknowability, unknowableness, vagueness &c. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity [See Equivocalness]; doubtful meaning; uncertainty [See Uncertainty]; perplexity (confusion) [See Disorder]; spinosity; obscurum per obscurius [L.]; mystification (concealment) [See Concealment]; latency [See Latency]; transcendentalism.
  pons asinorum [L.], asses’ bridge; double Dutch, high Dutch [slang], Greek, Hebrew, Choctaw; jargon (unmeaning) [See Unmeaningness].
  ENIGMA, riddle (secret) [See Secret]; paradox; dignus vindice nodus [L.]; sealed book; steganography, cryptography, freemasonry.
   VERB:BE UNINTELLIGIBLE &c. adj.; require explanation [See Interpretation]; have a doubtful meaning, pass comprehension.
  RENDER UNINTELLIGIBLE &c. adj.; conceal [See Concealment]; darken [See Darkness]; confuse (derange) [See Derangement]; mystify, perplex (bewilder) [See Uncertainty].
  NOT UNDERSTAND [See Intelligibility]; lose, – the clew; miss; not know what to make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up; not be able to -account for, – make head or tail of; be at sea (uncertain) [See Uncertainty]; wonder [See Wonder]; see through a glass darkly (ignorance) [See Ignorance].
  not understand one another; play at cross-purposes (misinterpret) [See Misinterpretation].
   ADJECTIVE:UNINTELLIGIBLE, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable, unfathomable; incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable; inapprehensible, incomprehensible; insolvable, insoluble; impenetrable.
  PUZZLING, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical, enigmatic or enigmatical, indecipherable, illegible.
  OBSCURE, crabbed, imperspicuous [rare], dark, muddy, clear as mud [colloq.], seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery; undiscernible (invisible) [See Invisibility]; misty (opaque) [See Opacity]; hidden [See Concealment]; latent [See Latency]; mysterious; mystic, mystical, acroamatic or acroamatical, metempiric or metempirical; transcendental; occult, esoteric, recondite, abstruse.
  INDEFINITE (indistinct) [See Invisibility]; perplexed (confused) [See Disorder]; undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous.
  INCONCEIVABLE, inconceptible [obs.]; searchless; above -, beyond -, past- comprehension; beyond one’s depth; unconceived.
  INEXPRESSIBLE, unutterable, ineffable, undefinable, incommunicable.