Unspeakable
[ʌn'spiːkəb(ə)l] or [ʌn'spikəbl]
Definition
(a.) Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inexpressible, unutterable, ineffable, indescribable, beyond expression.
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Definition
adj. incapable of being spoken uttered or described.—v.t. Unspeak′ (Shak.) to retract as what has been spoken.—adv. Unspea′kably in an unspeakable or inexpressible manner.—adj. Unspea′king not being able to speak.
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Examples
- I hear in that fane an unspeakable sound. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Dreadful doubt and anguish--prayers and fears and griefs unspeakable--followed the regiment. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For her there was influence unspeakable in all he uttered, wrote, thought, or looked. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I used to feel it like a baleful air or sigh, penetrate deep, and make motion pause at my heart, or proceed only under unspeakable oppression. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My rage is unspeakable, when I reflect that the murderer, whom I have turned loose upon society, still exists. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Question: And unspeakable vexation? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What fate is prepared beyond the grave for her, to whom God has assigned on earth a lot of such unspeakable wretchedness? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- That they should be allowed to invade the education of the elite is unspeakable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is such unspeakable moral compensation to Wegg, to be overcome by the consideration that Mr Rokesmith has an underhanded mind! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It would have been an unspeakable indulgence. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The little old man put his head more on one side, and rubbed his hands with unspeakable glee. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I go home in a state of unspeakable bliss, and waltz in imagination, all night long, with my arm round the blue waist of my dear divinity. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He regarded her from a point of view which in its remoteness, tender as it was, he little thought would have been unspeakable agony to her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But Madame Fosco seemed resolved not to part with me, and to my unspeakable amazement, resolved also to talk. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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