as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
an ineffable beauty descends upon the canyon as the sun begins to set
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Recent Examples of ineffable
The greatest movie stars are ones that combine their raw skill with a kind of ineffable glimmer.
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Esther Zuckerman, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
Then, after significant toil, and in a moment of exasperation, the student will have a flash of insight into some basic, ineffable truth.
—Sebastian Purcell
august 18, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
That’s what delivered a moment that was nearly ineffable.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 17 Aug. 2025
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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Esther Zuckerman, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
Then, after significant toil, and in a moment of exasperation, the student will have a flash of insight into some basic, ineffable truth.
—Sebastian Purcell
august 18, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
That’s what delivered a moment that was nearly ineffable.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 17 Aug. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffable
Adjective
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Twenty years later, Jim Montgomery, goalkeeper for Second Division underdogs Sunderland, would pull off an incredible double save to deny Leeds United in an upset so huge rival fans became even more desperate to see their own heroes do similar at the 100,000-capacity national stadium.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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This is a big-screen beast with incredible internals that rival those of desktops in the same price range, including a massive 64GB of LPDDR5 RAM, an ultra-powerful RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, and more.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The smell after a rain is indescribable.—
Mitch Moxley,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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The scene was terrible, indescribable, a tragedy.—
Jillian Frankel,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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As the series suggests, as a society, we are obsessed with rehashing the unspeakable.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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There’s an unspeakable political situation, work work work, the constant need of wiping of things, the siren call of a gazillion gaudy facets of the internet.—
Kate Colby
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 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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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
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
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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
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In a way, Tiffany’s rendering of fandom as specific and incommunicable risks undermining her premise, which has to do with the massed power of people online.—
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2022
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“Ineffable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffable. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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