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
Courtesy of the City of Orlando Overall, the leafy memorial’s open-space concept uplifts and seems to point skyward toward the ineffable.
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R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
Researchers tend to define consciousness loosely as the ability to experience—the subjective, ineffable feeling of being alive.
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Emma Gometz,
Scientific American,
15 May 2026
Such is the ineffable at-once-ness of these moments.
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Literary Hub,
4 May 2026
But in ways unmistakable, and ineffable, Kannapolis avoided the fate that a lot of other small towns couldn’t.
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Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for ineffable
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
Researchers tend to define consciousness loosely as the ability to experience—the subjective, ineffable feeling of being alive.
—
Emma Gometz,
Scientific American,
15 May 2026
Such is the ineffable at-once-ness of these moments.
—
Literary Hub,
4 May 2026
But in ways unmistakable, and ineffable, Kannapolis avoided the fate that a lot of other small towns couldn’t.
—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for ineffable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffable
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There was also an incredible amount of violence directed at the people who had come to stop it.
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Not constrained by traditional vehicle design, Ojai has an incredible amount of legroom.
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There has been an indescribable joy sweeping New York City as of late, thanks to an unprecedented week of athletic endeavors.
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From there, make room for Karolina Wydra, in a very tricky and indescribable Pluribus role; Allison Janney as the ultimate sparring partner in The Diplomat; and Amanda Peet, constantly threatening to steal Your Friends and Neighbors entirely.
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When once-unspeakable truths break through and are finally said aloud, that is a win.
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The prosecution claims David did this unspeakable crime while in the grips of a night terror, and his friends and family seemingly believe that story.
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If everything is systematically interlinked, then life’s transcendent beauty is inextricable from its inexpressible horrors and outright silliness, like the jarring swings between slapstick and tragedy in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.
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Instead, there were chuckles to hold back anger and carefully chosen words to express what felt inexpressible.
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Our movie tastes are determined by some indefinable electrical current of enthusiasm or joy or deep, radiating sadness, or some combination of the three.
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Of course, beauty is subject to taste and culture and all sorts of indefinable things.
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An idle scroll through any social media feed will reveal violent language against Jewish people that was considered widely unutterable a few years ago.
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Stripped of orchestral arrangement, the emotion in Ross’s voice provokes that unutterable connection that makes singer and listener one in a desire to act in the present for the present.
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But because some crucial part of artistic expression is always slipping toward the incommunicable, the most powerful art is sometimes less a dialogue than a soliloquy.
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Margaret would whisper in the dark and laugh quietly, entertained by her own incommunicable thoughts.
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“Ineffable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffable. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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