Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being interpreted: as, uninterpretable enigmas.
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- adjective Unable to be
interpreted .
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Examples
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Not that Kaufman has made the "uninterpretable" holy grail of films, impervious to all brain-fart criticism.
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The music produced in a culture foreign to one's own can also be surprisingly uninterpretable.
A Sound Check For the Ages Daniel J. Levitin 2011
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There is a type of symbolic writing that seems uninterpretable to the naked eye.
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Writers are often blind to alternate interpretations of their words, or that their words are uninterpretable (the latter being my particular sin).
do I fall through what I might of been? truepenny 2009
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Because we cannot assess the variability across our testing environments of all the yet-to-be-identified non-genetic factors that influence IQ, Moore argues that estimates of the heritability of IQ are effectively uninterpretable and unable to be applied in any appropriate way.
8 Surprising Facts About Parenting, Genes and What Really Makes Us Who We Are 2011
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There is a type of symbolic writing that seems uninterpretable to the naked eye.
“The Arrival” by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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Presence of a novel DNA methylation enzyme in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with pig farming leads to uninterpretable results in standard pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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The 1 hour and 2 minute episode had 7 commercial breaks. 7 uninterpretable, unstoppable commercials.
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But do these strike me as uninterpretable, ungrammatical, confounding, or even distracting?
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It is unthinkable that any reputable toxicologist, giving a completely objective evaluation of data resulting from such a study, could conclude anything other than that the study was uninterpretable and worthless, and should be repeated.
Dr. Joseph Mercola: The Deadly Neurotoxin Nearly EVERYONE Uses Daily (VIDEO) 2010
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