UNCOMMUNICABLE Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

uncommunicable

adjective

ˌən-kə-ˈmyü-ni-kə-bəl

Definition of uncommunicable

as in incredible

beyond the power to describe the book attempts to communicate the uncommunicable horrors of war

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Adjective

That while Richard Gadd was incredible in it, not recognizing Jamie Bell was pretty shocking to me.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 July 2026
States, including Arkansas, are about to take on a large part of the incredible financial responsibility for administering SNAP, along with a significant portion of the program's benefit costs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 July 2026

Definition of incredible

Adjective

Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin’s totally indescribable HBO series was both a grand evolution of the Tim Robinson experience and a wildly original contribution to what television could be and feel like.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 July 2026
The results have often left me highly frustrated, but also have given me indescribable joy at the fact of having absorbed (although only partially, of course) some of the elusive beauty of those marvelous, magical, mysteriously alluring tongues.

— Douglas Hofstadter, Time, 30 June 2026

Definition of indescribable

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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.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
Margaret would whisper in the dark and laugh quietly, entertained by her own incommunicable thoughts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Apr. 2026

Definition of incommunicable

Adjective

Too much wanting for something ineffable, something that feels more like absence than body, the negative space around a someone.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
Nonetheless, Simón stirs up the ineffable sadness that comes with wanting answers to the mysteries of your family — and then, like it or not, receiving them.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of ineffable

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