Indecipherable and Perspicuous

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Indecipherable adjective - Incapable of being read or deciphered.

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Perspicuous is an antonym for indecipherable.

Perspicuous adjective - Not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation.

Usage example: believing that poetry need not be as perspicuous as prose, he writes poems that are intentionally ambiguous

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Indecipherable is an antonym for perspicuous.

Nearby Word: perspicuity

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Perspicuous and Indecipherable. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/indecipherable/perspicuous

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