Indefinable
[ɪndɪ'faɪnəb(ə)l] or [,ɪndɪ'faɪnəbl]
Definition
(adj.) not capable of being precisely or readily described; not easily put into words; 'an indefinable feeling of terror'; 'an abstract concept that seems indefinable' .
(adj.) defying expression or description; 'indefinable yearnings'; 'indescribable beauty'; 'ineffable ecstasy'; 'inexpressible anguish'; 'unspeakable happiness'; 'unutterable contempt'; 'a thing of untellable splendor' .
Editor: Matt--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.
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Definition
adj. that cannot be defined.—adv. Indefin′ably.
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Examples
- The indefinable feeling with which Lady Dedlock had impressed me may have had some influence in keeping me from the house even when she was absent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is in such indefinable movements that action often begins. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was a queer, indefinable hostility between the two men, lately. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As on the Secretary's face there was a nameless cloud, so on his manner there was a shadow equally indefinable. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mamma would appear to have had an indefinable foreboding of what afterwards happened, for she would frequently urge upon me, “Not a little man. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Each of the states had indefinable claims to expansion westward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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