as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
the indescribable immensity of Mount Everest
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Recent Examples of indescribable
Lots of us can remember George Graham’s Arsenal snatching the league from Liverpool in 1989 and the epic, almost indescribable drama of Michael Thomas scoring the decisive goal with virtually the last kick of the season.
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Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
As del Toro enters the Oscars’ race with one of his best projects to date, the return of the feature that founded his filmography serves as a kind of toast to the mastery of art, life, and indescribable spaces between.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
The opportunity to see her mom and each member of her family is indescribable, Joseph said.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
The sunrises were indescribable.
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2025
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Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
As del Toro enters the Oscars’ race with one of his best projects to date, the return of the feature that founded his filmography serves as a kind of toast to the mastery of art, life, and indescribable spaces between.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
The opportunity to see her mom and each member of her family is indescribable, Joseph said.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
The sunrises were indescribable.
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indescribable
Adjective
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In an incredible twist of fate, a then-20-year-old Messi was actually photographed holding Yamal as a baby back in 2007.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
15 June 2026
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In baseball, the incredible comeback of the Mets to beat the Boston Red Sox in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
14 June 2026
Adjective
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The prosecution claims David did this unspeakable crime while in the grips of a night terror, and his friends and family seemingly believe that story.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
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This is a story devoid of childlike wonder, just the horrific evil men are capable of and the small acts of grace found in unspeakable circumstances.—
Chris Nashawaty,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 June 2026
Adjective
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If everything is systematically interlinked, then life’s transcendent beauty is inextricable from its inexpressible horrors and outright silliness, like the jarring swings between slapstick and tragedy in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.—
Jack Denton,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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Instead, there were chuckles to hold back anger and carefully chosen words to express what felt inexpressible.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Courtesy of the City of Orlando Overall, the leafy memorial’s open-space concept uplifts and seems to point skyward toward the ineffable.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Psychedelic journeys might be too ineffable and too particular to a person’s individual consciousness for the methods of science.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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An idle scroll through any social media feed will reveal violent language against Jewish people that was considered widely unutterable a few years ago.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
1 May 2026
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Stripped of orchestral arrangement, the emotion in Ross’s voice provokes that unutterable connection that makes singer and listener one in a desire to act in the present for the present.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Our movie tastes are determined by some indefinable electrical current of enthusiasm or joy or deep, radiating sadness, or some combination of the three.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
24 Feb. 2026
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Of course, beauty is subject to taste and culture and all sorts of indefinable things.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Indescribable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indescribable. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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