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
Aquarius teaches us about community and friendship by showing us which friends support our individuality while offering the incredible, ineffable experience of losing ourselves in something greater and more communal.
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Colin Bedell, Them, 16 Jan. 2025
Or is creativity fundamentally serendipitous, tied to something ineffable and deeply human?
—Dan Gardner, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
There’s an intangible, ineffable quality to it, but the reviews are glowing.
—Justin Williams, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
In 2024, the albums that meant the most to me harkened back to that grade-school reading assignment with their ability to capture and define the ineffable.
—Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024
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Colin Bedell, Them, 16 Jan. 2025
Or is creativity fundamentally serendipitous, tied to something ineffable and deeply human?
—Dan Gardner, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
There’s an intangible, ineffable quality to it, but the reviews are glowing.
—Justin Williams, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
In 2024, the albums that meant the most to me harkened back to that grade-school reading assignment with their ability to capture and define the ineffable.
—Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffable
Adjective
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Dina’s hair looks incredible the entire time, by the way.—
Kate Aurthur,
Variety,
5 May 2025
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Boom, out of nowhere, the enterprising AI developer comes up with an incredible breakthrough, doing so around year 13 or 14.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
Adjective
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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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Changes in estrogen levels during these times can lead to a host of symptoms that could contribute to an indescribable burning sensation.—
Cheyenne Buckingham,
SELF,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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With a mystery that keeps the audience on their toes with an unspeakable twist.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
2 May 2025
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Songbirds cried in the surrounding trees, and the girl’s heart fluttered with unspeakable sadness.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
1 May 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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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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An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Nov. 2024
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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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 20 May. 2025.
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