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
The Coens are true American classics, indefinable and incomparable.
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Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2024
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
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Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indefinable
Adjective
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Some incredible people were with us at the beginning, but life happens.—
Jon-Michael Banks,
Kansas City Star,
30 July 2025
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Letscher’s more-than-endearing script runs the entire gamut of emotions without ever feeling manipulative or treacly, and pulls it all off in less than 90 minutes – an incredible feat.—
Duante Beddingfield,
Freep.com,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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This led to a conversation about the right casting for a part, and the mysterious, ineffable quality of performers with chemistry — something Danson doesn't really believe in, but Hunt isn't so sure.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
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That ineffable feeling of danger is what drew so many people to FLAG’s Memorial Day performance.—
Jim Ruland,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
Adjective
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Winant crystallizes this idea of crossing a indescribable threshold through her discussion and analysis of masochism, an intrinsic component of athletic practice that intertwines physical pleasure with pain.—
Jessica Simmons-Reid,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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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
Adjective
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.—
Erin Maglaque,
The New York Review of Books,
15 Nov. 2024
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.—
Erin Maglaque,
The New York Review of Books,
15 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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One life lost is one too many — eight lives lost is unspeakable.—
Robin Joy Maxson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 July 2025
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Afrikaners have faced unspeakable horrors and are no less deserving of refugee resettlement than the hundreds of thousands of others who were allowed into the United States during the past administration.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Piranesi is a mystery, a mystery of the mind, a way for Clarke to communicate the incommunicable.—
Jason Kehe,
Wired,
21 Sep. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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And extreme pain in my bones [that was] unexplainable.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
20 July 2025
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Strange and unexplainable things happen on the show.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
30 June 2025
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“Indefinable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indefinable. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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