Untranslatable
[ʌntræns'leitәbl]
Definition
(adj.) not capable of being put into another form or style or language; 'an untranslatable idiom'; 'untranslatable art' .
Edited by Annabel--From WordNet
Examples
- The language was there, visible, but untranslatable--a poem, a fervid lyric, in an unknown tongue. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- With perfect fine finger-tips of reality she would touch the reality in him, the suave, pure, untranslatable reality of his loins of darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Annabel