as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
the indescribable immensity of Mount Everest
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Recent Examples of indescribable
People doing things that are indescribable and not for today to discuss.
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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
No matter how much authenticity a film production strives for in a Holocaust drama, the end product will never fully capture the indescribable horrors of the Nazi effort to exterminate Europe’s Jewish population during World War II.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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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
No matter how much authenticity a film production strives for in a Holocaust drama, the end product will never fully capture the indescribable horrors of the Nazi effort to exterminate Europe’s Jewish population during World War II.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indescribable
Adjective
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Everyone who works at Sunderland has just gone through an incredible challenge of trying to navigate from League One to the Premier League.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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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
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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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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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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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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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 3 Aug. 2025.
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