Unutterable
[ʌn'ʌt(ə)rəb(ə)l] or [ʌn'ʌtərəbl]
Definition
(a.) Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inexpressible, ineffable, unspeakable, indescribable, that cannot be uttered, beyond expression.
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Definition
adj. incapable of being uttered or expressed.—ns. Unutterabil′ity Unutt′erableness.—adv. Unutt′erably.
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Examples
- The springs of my life fell low, and the shuddering of an unutterable dread crept over me from head to foot. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I don't doubt you any longer, said Dorothea, putting out her hand; a vague fear for him impelling her unutterable affection. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- De Hamal is an unutterable puppy, besides being a very white-livered hero. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Unutterable loathing of a desolate existence past, forbade return. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was such an unutterable enemy, yet glistening with uncanny white fire. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What unutterable pathos was in his voice! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And was not that an hour of unutterable misery, though my own hands made the sacrifice? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We waited, in unutterable expectation, to see what would happen next. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- An unutterable suspicion that his mind is prying into mine overcomes me at these times, and it overcame me now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Unutterable relief instantly filled them as if they fell upon the mystic jewel which sparkled in the centre of my stolen headpiece. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- A look of unutterable relief overspread the old servant's countenance. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The Abomination of Desolation was no mystery to them; they had discovered that unutterable Thing in the characteristic others call Originality. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I thanked God--experienced amidst unutterable exhaustion a glow of grateful joy--and slept. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- As we passed it Holmes, to my unutterable astonishment, leaned over in front of me and deliberately knocked the whole thing over. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a toilsome journey up-stairs to his room, and he re-entered its dark solitary precincts in unutterable misery. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And yet the paradisal glow on her heart, and the unutterable peace of darkness in his, this was the all-in-all. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To my unutterable astonishment, just as my hand was on the door, it was suddenly opened from the inside, and out walked Rosanna Spearman! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- How the trembling of our hearts at her aspect bears witness to its unutterable beauty! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My lady looked unutterable things at him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The horror that is upon her is unutterable. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I mean he had not the unutterable happiness that I had in being so near you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Jos cried with a look of unutterable rapture and satisfaction. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- To have one's pulse beating direct from the mystery, this was perfection, unutterable satisfaction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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