UNSPEAKABLE Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

unspeakable

adjective

ˌən-ˈspē-kə-bəl

Definition of unspeakable

as in incredible

beyond the power to describe continually encountered unspeakable beauty in their travels through the Alps

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Recent Examples of unspeakable Elsewhere, an unspeakable tragedy that befalls a fellow factory worker further establishes the plight of young girls across China’s recent history. — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 25 May 2026 Three hundred pages of unspeakable horror. — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2026 What happens when the unspeakable happens? — The Know, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026 Our thoughts remain with the victim’s family and their unspeakable loss. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unspeakable

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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

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
There has been an indescribable joy sweeping New York City as of late, thanks to an unprecedented week of athletic endeavors.

— Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 18 June 2026

Definition of indescribable

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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.

— Alexander Smith, NBC news, 1 May 2026
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.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Dec. 2025

Definition of unutterable

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

Adjective

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
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

Definition of inexpressible

Adjective

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

Our movie tastes are determined by some indefinable electrical current of enthusiasm or joy or deep, radiating sadness, or some combination of the three.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
Of course, beauty is subject to taste and culture and all sorts of indefinable things.

— Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026

Definition of indefinable

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