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unutterable

[ uhn-uht-er-uh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. not communicable by utterance; unspeakable; beyond expression:

    unutterable joy.

  2. not utterable; not pronounceable:

    an unutterable foreign word.



unutterable

/ ʌnˈʌtərəbəl /

adjective

  1. incapable of being expressed in words
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • unˈutterableness, noun
  • unˈutterably, adverb
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Other Words From

  • un·utter·a·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of unutterable1

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Example Sentences

Charlotte and Miranda, getting drunk, and telling the socially unutterable truth about how they sometimes hate their children?

The infinite regression of meaning allowed Swift to utter unutterable illuminations about human existence.

At this part of Lorenzo's narrative, a cry, unutterable in words, burst from the engloomed but steadfast bosom of his auditor.

Miss Winter glanced unutterable things at Margaret, and Ethel began to perceive she had done something wrong.

It was thrown by a very dirty lamp, and disclosed a small court of unutterable meanness and inconceivable smells.

She danced with a graceful energy and looked unutterable things out of her great black eyes while talking of the weather.

Conceive, if you can, the unutterable horror of life in this world without a few blessed human faults.

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