inexpressible
/ɪnɪkˈsprɛsɪb(ə)l
/ /ɪnɛkˈsprɛsɪb(ə)l/adjective
(Of a feeling) too strong to be described or conveyed in words: a mood of inexpressible longing...
- 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.
- Their ride brings them inexpressible glee and joy.
Synonyms
indescribable, undefinable, unutterable, unspeakable, incommunicable, ineffable;
beyond words, beyond description, beggaring description;
unimaginable, inconceivable, unthinkable, untold, overwhelming, intense, profound
Derivatives
inexpressibly
/ /ˌɪnɛkˈsprɛsɪbli / adverb ...- 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.
- It is inexpressibly beautiful and I will be sad when it's over.
Rhymes
- ribbon-grass
- ribbon gum
- ribboning-out
- Ribbonism
- ribbon knit
- ribbon knot
- ribbon lake
- ribbon lightning
- Ribbonman
- ribbon microphone
- ribbon mike
- ribbon parachute
- ribbon plant
- ribbonry
- ribbon seal
- ribbon shirt
- ribbon snake
- Ribbon Society
- ribbon weaver
- ribbon weed
- ribbonwood
- ribbon worm
- ribbony
- ribbony-gum
- rib-breaking