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Recent Examples of indefinable Pitt, at the time, was in his early 30s and gaining notice for being incredibly handsome and in possession of the indefinable charisma that makes a movie star. Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024 Patinkin, in an indefinable accent, is his usual Big Presence, but Beane holds her own, and the arrival of Linda Emond as Interpol agent Hilde Eriksen pays constant comic dividends. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2024 People hold fierce loyalties to their Arthur Avenue stores of choice, mostly based on nostalgia, and the indefinable value of a personal relationship with one’s foodmonger. Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023 Even in a case, like this one, where excess is the point, comedy still depends on an indefinable subtlety. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 25 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for indefinable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indefinable
Adjective
  • In the fewer than five years since then, the tracks have collectively moved an incredible five million additional equivalent units.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Their outreach is incredible and this event itself has raised over a million dollars over the years.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • An ineffable, but important community component was lost in that economic and social transition.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
  • The city has captured the hearts of travelers of centuries for its innate elegance and beauty, along with that ineffable je ne sais quoi.
    Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Winning back-to-back championships is indescribable, Bennett said as his team celebrated on the ice around him Tuesday night.
    Pierre LeBrun, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • The Adventurous Menu at KOL The menu at KOL is quite indescribable.
    Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Set primarily in Jacksonville, Moniz’s stories trace the contours of her characters’ inner lives, including private pains and unspeakable secrets, showing us ordinary people with extraordinary things broiling just beneath the surface.
    Grace Flahive June 17, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
  • Luke's exile Luke agrees to train Leia and Han's son in the ways of the Force, but his fear over Ben Solo turning to the Dark Side prompts an unspeakable act: Luke tries to kill Ben in his sleep, but the Padawan stops him.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • Piranesi is a mystery, a mystery of the mind, a way for Clarke to communicate the incommunicable.
    Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
  • And nothing is more isolating, more incommunicable, than the grief of a parent who has been unable to save their child’s life.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
Adjective
  • Two high voices — LACO features soprano Amanda Forsythe and countertenor John Holiday — intertwine with the orchestra turning this hymn to the Virgin Mary’s suffering into unutterable sweetness and treating death as life’s engenderment.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • In between loads of cartoonish ultraviolence and B-movie horror ephemera came some honestly unutterable lyrics, which Bill fought his faith to perform.
    Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
Adjective
  • In the pantheon of unexplainable things in this world, what went wrong with KJ Jefferson last season could be among things like Bigfoot, UFOs and where that one sock goes in the dryer.
    Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2025
  • The Moorehead family isn’t the only one left to navigate an unexplainable tragedy.
    Sam Gillette, People.com, 20 May 2025

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“Indefinable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indefinable. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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