INDEFINABLE Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

indefinable

adjective

ˌin-di-ˈfī-nə-bəl

Definition of indefinable

as in incredible

beyond the power to describe some indefinable quality makes that movie star very appealing

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Recent Examples of indefinable This East Coast city earns high marks year after year for its various dining options, museums, and the indefinable, electric energy of the city that never sleeps. — Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025 Her work often explores indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature. — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2025 An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024 When the two creatives become housemates, an indefinable friendship sparks. — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 24 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for indefinable

Recent Examples of Synonyms for indefinable

Adjective

That while Richard Gadd was incredible in it, not recognizing Jamie Bell was pretty shocking to me.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 July 2026
States, including Arkansas, are about to take on a large part of the incredible financial responsibility for administering SNAP, along with a significant portion of the program's benefit costs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 July 2026

Definition of incredible

Adjective

Too much wanting for something ineffable, something that feels more like absence than body, the negative space around a someone.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
Nonetheless, Simón stirs up the ineffable sadness that comes with wanting answers to the mysteries of your family — and then, like it or not, receiving them.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of ineffable

Adjective

Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin’s totally indescribable HBO series was both a grand evolution of the Tim Robinson experience and a wildly original contribution to what television could be and feel like.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 July 2026
The results have often left me highly frustrated, but also have given me indescribable joy at the fact of having absorbed (although only partially, of course) some of the elusive beauty of those marvelous, magical, mysteriously alluring tongues.

— Douglas Hofstadter, Time, 30 June 2026

Definition of indescribable

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Much like the famed British poets of World War I, who sought to express the inexpressible, Abu Toha strives to capture the unspeakable carnage, futility, and despair of war.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Writing gives mothers the space and the time to express the inexpressible, even when the space and time do so are stolen away.

— Alice Vincent, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2025

Definition of inexpressible

Adjective

But because some crucial part of artistic expression is always slipping toward the incommunicable, the most powerful art is sometimes less a dialogue than a soliloquy.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
Margaret would whisper in the dark and laugh quietly, entertained by her own incommunicable thoughts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Apr. 2026

Definition of incommunicable

Adjective

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
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

Definition of unutterable

Adjective

This somber Australian chiller, done in an exceptionally authentic faux-doc style, follows a family trying to piece together unexplainable supernatural events in the aftermath of their daughter’s tragic, seemingly accidental death.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
People often search for answers after tragedy, looking for something that might explain the unexplainable.

— Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026

Definition of unexplainable

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