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
Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2025 by The New York Times, Angel Down follows Private Cyril Bagger, who has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of WWI through his wits and deception, swindling fellow soldiers at every opportunity.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
Aminian’s spirit and unspeakable bravery is, remarkably, not unique in a country where female resistance has been a lifeblood of anti-government protest for almost half a century.
—Ellie Austin, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
Assembly Bill 877, by Assemblymember Diane Dixon, R-Newport Beach, would have said the unspeakable out loud — explicitly notifying health insurance companies that residential treatment in California is mostly non-medical and should be billed that way.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 12 Jan. 2026
How Vinyl Records Are Valued Sentiment aside, some rare vinyls have unspeakable financial value and have sold for astronomical prices at auctions.
—Lauren Wellbank, Martha Stewart, 9 Jan. 2026
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
Aminian’s spirit and unspeakable bravery is, remarkably, not unique in a country where female resistance has been a lifeblood of anti-government protest for almost half a century.
—Ellie Austin, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
Assembly Bill 877, by Assemblymember Diane Dixon, R-Newport Beach, would have said the unspeakable out loud — explicitly notifying health insurance companies that residential treatment in California is mostly non-medical and should be billed that way.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 12 Jan. 2026
How Vinyl Records Are Valued Sentiment aside, some rare vinyls have unspeakable financial value and have sold for astronomical prices at auctions.
—Lauren Wellbank, Martha Stewart, 9 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspeakable
Adjective
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Well, the Santana band of course was just incredible.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2026
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They are known for their incredible kindness and hospitality, which says a lot given the centrality of hospitality to Iranian culture more broadly.—
Talla Mountjoy,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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As del Toro enters the Oscars’ race with one of his best projects to date, the return of the feature that founded his filmography serves as a kind of toast to the mastery of art, life, and indescribable spaces between.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
8 Dec. 2025
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The opportunity to see her mom and each member of her family is indescribable, Joseph said.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
27 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Dec. 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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But it’s driven by the same instincts that make her other work seem to express something ineffable about the way musical subcultures fit into the world.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
4 Mar. 2026
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But while this may help some artists, others continue to credit the ineffable qualities of music composition.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Jack Denton,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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Instead, there were chuckles to hold back anger and carefully chosen words to express what felt inexpressible.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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In a way, Tiffany’s rendering of fandom as specific and incommunicable risks undermining her premise, which has to do with the massed power of people online.—
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2022
Adjective
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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.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
24 Feb. 2026
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Of course, beauty is subject to taste and culture and all sorts of indefinable things.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Unspeakable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspeakable. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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