legible

Examples of illegible

illegible
The reproductions of maps are often blurred or printed to a scale that makes details and legends illegible.
There may be damage to the centuries-old registers - from water, rodents, insects, mold, and simple wear-and-tear - that render some entries partially or wholly illegible.
Of the surviving manuscripts, a number are virtually illegible or contain serious gaps.
The genius as superman came to be a remote and even illegible figure, who had overcome weaknesses and constraints through the power of the will.
From the microfilm available to me, however, the song is illegible.
Illegible tertiary glyphs thus refer to speech, lesser titles, or writing itself.
If a production is illegible, how better to describe its capacity for meaning?
It contains annotations on the inside covers, most of which are now illegible.
Computer-generated prescriptions can eliminate many simple errors such as illegible handwriting.
The illegible condition of the last pages of the manuscript (since lost) of the sermon did not permit the nineteenth-century editor to read every word of the text.
This leaf contains a significant number of areas in which the text is either faint or entirely illegible, even though nearby text is dark and clear.
The benefits include greater convenience for patients, safety benefits from fewer illegible or incomplete prescriptions and also from the possible integration of prescription with other records, and efficiency gains.
However, to claim that (in performance) a work is illegible is not to claim that it is uninterpretable, merely that its meanings are not analytically deduced.
The illegible body stymies physiognomic reading while simultaneously encouraging it, in the process offering a formal structure to be interpreted and compelling the self-conscious subjectivity of an interpreter.
Scholars and illegible entries excluded.
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