as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
the indescribable immensity of Mount Everest
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Recent Examples of indescribable
Much like birth itself, the human experience of pain is reliably quotidian yet wholly indescribable: Neither words nor images can fully account for the primal, subjective sensations of the body.
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Jessica Simmons-Reid, Artforum, 1 June 2025
People doing things that are indescribable and not for today to discuss.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 May 2025
People pouring through our borders, unchecked, people doing things that are indescribable and not for today to discuss.
—Avery Lotz, Axios, 26 May 2025
The taste, a pink electrocution of the tongue, was indescribable—and there was a version that was more so?
—Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
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Jessica Simmons-Reid, Artforum, 1 June 2025
People doing things that are indescribable and not for today to discuss.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 May 2025
People pouring through our borders, unchecked, people doing things that are indescribable and not for today to discuss.
—Avery Lotz, Axios, 26 May 2025
The taste, a pink electrocution of the tongue, was indescribable—and there was a version that was more so?
—Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indescribable
Adjective
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He's been incredible with the Mets, and his power is almost impossible to replace.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Wolves have taken a bit of a gamble – could be incredible, could be a flop.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Or marry Selden, if you’re actually attracted to him, and endure the not-very-unspeakable fate of being merely upper middle class rather than super-rich.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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All these artists are doing it for the right reasons — to raise money after this unspeakable tragedy.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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The greatest movie stars are ones that combine their raw skill with a kind of ineffable glimmer.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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That’s what delivered a moment that was nearly ineffable.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Aug. 2025
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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For all Sacks’ efforts to remain an indefinable cult figure outside the mainstream, he has lately been caught in Hollywood’s tractor beam, with several film scripts in advanced stages of development.—
Julian Sancton,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Aug. 2025
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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
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“Indescribable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indescribable. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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