Close and Illegible

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Close adjective - Having little space between items or parts.

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Illegible and close are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Illegible" instead an adjective "Close".

Nearby Words: closed, closeness, closing, closely, closure

Illegible adjective - Incapable of being read or deciphered.

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Close and illegible are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Close" instead an adjective "Illegible".

Nearby Words: illegibly, illegibility

In Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close a father, writing to his dead son, mentions how he wishes he had an infinitely long book with which to write in, because he fears that at his current rate his words will start to slam into each other and become illegible.

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