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
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The Encore® family of azaleas stands apart from all others with their incredible reblooming ability, sun tolerance, and cold hardiness.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
8 Aug. 2025
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The Hubble Telescope and its Wide Field Camera 3 got an incredible view of the comet named 3I/ATLAS, which came from beyond our solar system, on July 21 when the object was 277 million miles (445 million kilometers) from Earth.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2025
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Critics tend to argue that the atomic bombs were unnecessary, inflicting unspeakable devastation on cities filled with civilians against an enemy that was already defeated and soon going to surrender.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Aug. 2025
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Next up is Jesse, who is once again failing at trying to convince us that Michelle did something unspeakable to him.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
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Some people also use wills to try to express the inexpressible or unsaid.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Aug. 2025
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Lana’s murder at 40 fills me with an inexpressible grief because in many ways, my 40th year was when my own life began.—
Meg Pillow
July 31,
Literary Hub,
31 July 2025
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Its blend of casual weirdness and ineffable showmanship — watch Carson slyly turn discomfort into comedy — distills the essence of late night better than any marquee guest or recurring segment.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Aug. 2025
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In fact, there’s something ineffable about the whole thing, something that can’t be explained with a formula.—
Ann Abel,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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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
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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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Her work often explores indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Indescribable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indescribable. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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