as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
the indescribable immensity of Mount Everest
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Recent Examples of indescribable
So Clark, for whom physical intimacy with Carol is still something of a new adventure, recommends looking out for those little indescribable, unique physical details of a person that enhance presence and attraction.
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Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2026
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.
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Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
8 Dec. 2025
The opportunity to see her mom and each member of her family is indescribable, Joseph said.
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Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
27 Nov. 2025
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Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2026
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.
—
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
See All Example Sentences for indescribable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indescribable
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The South American squad secured the $350,000 prize and trophy after an incredible lower bracket run, overcoming an early playoff loss to Paper Rex.
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Instead, Curaçao goalkeeper Eloy Room made an incredible 15 saves and Ecuador walked away with a humbling result against an opponent it was heavily favored to beat.
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When once-unspeakable truths break through and are finally said aloud, that is a win.
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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.
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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.
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Instead, there were chuckles to hold back anger and carefully chosen words to express what felt inexpressible.
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That, for you at least, that ineffable quality that gives a density, a weight.
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The versatility, the intelligence, the playmaking and that ineffable ability to win — the Frenchman was a basketball romantic’s dream.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Of course, beauty is subject to taste and culture and all sorts of indefinable things.
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