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单词 indescribable
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indescribable

/ɪndɪˈskrʌɪbəb(ə)l /
adjective
Too unusual, extreme, or indefinite to be adequately described: most prisoners suffered indescribable hardship...
  • As for the three-day trek there was no point in describing the indescribable.
  • The question really comes down to being asked to describe the indescribable.
  • How does one describe an incredibly beautiful land and its indescribable tragedy?

Synonyms

inexpressible, undefinable, beyond words/description, beggaring description, nameless, incommunicable, ineffable, unutterable, unspeakable;
intense, extreme, acute, strong, powerful, profound;
incredible, extraordinary, remarkable, prodigious;
indefinite, unanalysable, intangible, impalpable, elusive, fugitive

Derivatives

indescribability

/ɪndɪskrʌɪbəˈbɪlɪti/ noun ...
  • There is no quiet anymore, no secret pools where fairies dwell, no empty, glowing moments of indescribability.
  • Their strongest asset has always been the sheer indescribability of their sound - they take all sorts of styles and craft a composite of natural, fluid sound.
  • It's taken him years just to process it all, to be able to compress nine months of indescribability into a few sentences.

indescribably

/ɪndɪˈskrʌɪbəbli / adverb
[as submodifier]: it was indescribably boring...
  • The person responsible for such an indescribably appalling crime must be taken off the streets because it is inevitable he will strike again.
  • The second is the view which is indescribably beautiful.
  • The times in which we live are indescribably difficult and troubled.
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