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
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.
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Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 3 July 2025
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
An ineffable, but important community component was lost in that economic and social transition.
—Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
The city has captured the hearts of travelers of centuries for its innate elegance and beauty, along with that ineffable je ne sais quoi.
—Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 3 June 2025
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Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 3 July 2025
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
An ineffable, but important community component was lost in that economic and social transition.
—Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
The city has captured the hearts of travelers of centuries for its innate elegance and beauty, along with that ineffable je ne sais quoi.
—Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffable
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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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It’s been such a privilege to compete here, and to be in the final is just indescribable.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
10 July 2025
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Winant crystallizes this idea of crossing a indescribable threshold through her discussion and analysis of masochism, an intrinsic component of athletic practice that intertwines physical pleasure with pain.—
Jessica Simmons-Reid,
Artforum,
1 June 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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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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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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Piranesi is a mystery, a mystery of the mind, a way for Clarke to communicate the incommunicable.—
Jason Kehe,
Wired,
21 Sep. 2020
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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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“Ineffable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffable. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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