Inexpressible
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| - | # Incapable of being [[speak|spoken]] or [[utter]]ed; [[unutterable]]; [[ineffable]]; [[inexpressible]]. | + | |
| - | #*'''1855-1882''', [[Walt Whitman]], ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'', book xv, | + | # Unable to be [[express]]ed. |
| - | #*:The endless pride and outstretching of man, '''unspeakable''' joys and sorrows. | + | #: ''She felt '''inexpressible''' contempt for her attackers.'' |
| - | # [[Unfit]] or not [[permitted]] to be spoken or [[describe]]d. | + | |
| - | #*'''1916''', [[James Joyce]], ''A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man'', ch. 3, | + | ====Synonyms==== |
| - | #*:The miser will remember his hoard of gold, the robber his ill-gotten wealth, the angry and revengeful and merciless murderers their deeds of blood and violence in which they revelled, the impure and adulterous the '''unspeakable''' and filthy pleasures in which they delighted. | + | * [[unexpressible]] (rare) |
| - | # [[Extremely]] [[bad]] or [[objectionable]]. | + | * See also [[Wikisaurus:indescribable]] |
| - | #:''an '''unspeakable''' fool'' | + | |
| - | #:''an '''unspeakable''' play'' | + | ====Antonyms==== |
| - | #*'''1926''', [[H.P. Lovecraft]], ''[[The Outsider]]'', | + | * [[expressible]] |
| - | #*:Yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a [[leering]], [[abhorrent]] travesty on the human shape; and in its mouldy, disintegrating apparel an '''unspeakable''' quality that chilled me even more. | + | |
| + | ====Related terms==== | ||
| + | * [[inexpressibility]] | ||
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| + | ====See also==== | ||
| + | * counterparts in calculating: | ||
| + | ** [[innumerable]] | ||
| + | ** [[innumerous]] | ||
| + | ** [[unnumerable]] | ||
| + | ** [[incalculable]] | ||
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- Unable to be expressed.
- She felt inexpressible contempt for her attackers.
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- unexpressible (rare)
- See also Wikisaurus:indescribable
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Related terms
See also
- counterparts in calculating:
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