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单词 inexpressible
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Definition of inexpressible in English:

inexpressible

adjective ɪnɛkˈsprɛsɪb(ə)lɪnɪkˈsprɛsɪb(ə)lˌɪnɪkˈsprɛsəb(ə)l
  • (of a feeling) too strong to be described or conveyed in words.

    a mood of inexpressible longing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What is inexpressible in words may seem even further removed from any kind of visualization.
    • He attributes the decline of literary style in great part to the poetry of World War I, which tried to describe inexpressible horrors as bluntly and simply as possible.
    • I shrieked, my voice quaking with inexpressible wrath.
    • To his inexpressible relief, the fledgling came back into sight, still flying in a broad circle, rather than striking off to the east.
    • The inexpressible grief of the family of the murdered boy will never cease.
    • Help us to give our hearts to you so that you can fill us with your inexpressible joy.
    • It is this potential for music to express contradictory, sometimes inexpressible emotions that drives Ward to write songs.
    • Her new born female child inherited a terrible, inexpressible fear, that someone, somewhere, was buried alive.
    • On the day of the wedding, I remember dressing in that pink dress with inexpressible joy, for it was the moment I had been waiting for since the seamstress had first measured me for my clothing.
    • When I look upon these people who are being trained with this attitude, and work up a good sweat with them, I feel a sort of inexpressible sorrow along with a great responsibility.
    • Suddenly it stood still to an inexpressible feeling that thrilled it through, and passed at once to my head and extremities.
    • It filled his soul again with inexpressible joy and pleasure, as if everything else seemed dark by comparison with that infinite brilliance and radiant light-for it was night.
    • He testified faithfully to God's glory and knew the inexpressible joy that ensues from such testimony, but how was his testimony received?
    • His face seemed simply to be expanding with inexpressible rage, but then he began to change.
    • The fallen leader's statues often go down with him, like the scapegoat cast out at the year's end, a focus for normally inexpressible feelings of violence.
    • Their ride brings them inexpressible glee and joy.
    • The epilogue catches perfectly the endless withdrawing melancholy of summer evenings in the high north, when pleasure goes on so long it turns into an inexpressible sadness.
    • Her untamed sexuality, her unknowable desires, her inexpressible emotions, frighten and drive him further away.
    • He was standing stiffly at his gate, staring into the cemetery, his eyes deep pools of inexpressible sorrow.
    • She had laughed, so close to tears, so close to letting the hollow gaping wound surface and sweep her away in a wave of inexpressible rage.
    Synonyms
    indescribable, undefinable, unutterable, unspeakable, incommunicable, ineffable
    beyond words, beyond description, beggaring description
    unimaginable, inconceivable, unthinkable, untold, overwhelming, intense, profound

Derivatives

  • inexpressibly

  • adverb ˌɪnɛkˈsprɛsɪbliˌɪnɪkˈsprɛsɪbli
    • It is inexpressibly beautiful and I will be sad when it's over.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Perhaps that was what made so many so inexplicably, inexpressibly angry.
      • I was uncomfortable and sticky and nervous - but also inexpressibly happy.
      • If the inexpressibly terrible is a sign of modern times, then Goya is not the prophet of modernity but the ultimate foreseer of the modern nightmare.
      • I didn't know what to say; at that moment, I lacked entirely a language for articulating what I was feeling, what I wanted to say, how inexpressibly angry and ashamed I was.

Rhymes

accessible, compressible, impressible, irrepressible, repressible
 
 

Definition of inexpressible in US English:

inexpressible

adjectiveˌinikˈspresəb(ə)lˌɪnɪkˈsprɛsəb(ə)l
  • (of a feeling) too strong to be described or conveyed in words.

    inexpressible joy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The inexpressible grief of the family of the murdered boy will never cease.
    • Help us to give our hearts to you so that you can fill us with your inexpressible joy.
    • When I look upon these people who are being trained with this attitude, and work up a good sweat with them, I feel a sort of inexpressible sorrow along with a great responsibility.
    • I shrieked, my voice quaking with inexpressible wrath.
    • Suddenly it stood still to an inexpressible feeling that thrilled it through, and passed at once to my head and extremities.
    • Her new born female child inherited a terrible, inexpressible fear, that someone, somewhere, was buried alive.
    • He was standing stiffly at his gate, staring into the cemetery, his eyes deep pools of inexpressible sorrow.
    • His face seemed simply to be expanding with inexpressible rage, but then he began to change.
    • The epilogue catches perfectly the endless withdrawing melancholy of summer evenings in the high north, when pleasure goes on so long it turns into an inexpressible sadness.
    • Her untamed sexuality, her unknowable desires, her inexpressible emotions, frighten and drive him further away.
    • What is inexpressible in words may seem even further removed from any kind of visualization.
    • It filled his soul again with inexpressible joy and pleasure, as if everything else seemed dark by comparison with that infinite brilliance and radiant light-for it was night.
    • Their ride brings them inexpressible glee and joy.
    • She had laughed, so close to tears, so close to letting the hollow gaping wound surface and sweep her away in a wave of inexpressible rage.
    • He attributes the decline of literary style in great part to the poetry of World War I, which tried to describe inexpressible horrors as bluntly and simply as possible.
    • The fallen leader's statues often go down with him, like the scapegoat cast out at the year's end, a focus for normally inexpressible feelings of violence.
    • It is this potential for music to express contradictory, sometimes inexpressible emotions that drives Ward to write songs.
    • On the day of the wedding, I remember dressing in that pink dress with inexpressible joy, for it was the moment I had been waiting for since the seamstress had first measured me for my clothing.
    • To his inexpressible relief, the fledgling came back into sight, still flying in a broad circle, rather than striking off to the east.
    • He testified faithfully to God's glory and knew the inexpressible joy that ensues from such testimony, but how was his testimony received?
    Synonyms
    indescribable, undefinable, unutterable, unspeakable, incommunicable, ineffable
 
 
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