unlistenably en · ADV
Etymology
From unlistenable + -ly.
Meanings
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In an unlistenable way.
Ayler was deemed unlistenably violent, but his playing was actually what you can hear at the ecstatic peaks of a gospel service.
1999, Andrew Blake, Living through pop, Routledge, →ISBN, page 90:Specifications for the tuners are quite close: IHF sensitivity (the minimum signal for which the tuner can deliver a 30 db signal-to-noise ratio--unlistenably noisy) is 1.75 microvolts for the Dyna...
1973, Ivan Berger, “FM kits: One super turner, one super value”, in Popular Mechanics, number January 1973, →ISSN, page 187:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unlistenably | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unlistenably | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |