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Meanings of ineffable in anglès
That cannot be expressed or described with words.
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Examples for "indescribable"
Examples for "indescribable"
1
In the third was the Queen, in bed, and in indescribable affliction.
2
All the remainder of the raiment they indulged in was utterly indescribable.
3
The wonder of it is almost indescribable and changes all the time.
4
The invaders left it in an indescribable state of disorder and filth.
5
In a word, the confusion and untidiness of the room were indescribable.
1
Young adult Americans, particularly graduates, are tormented by that unspeakable tyrant: success.
2
His mother's disease, that great unspeakable subject, grew obscenely large between them.
3
We know how to comfort, how to help people speak the unspeakable.
4
But that's how some people react to deception -with unspeakable violence.
5
The loss to literature and to his friends and family is unspeakable.
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We are left with something far more potent, an unspoken, unutterable horror.
2
An unutterable sadness seizes the reader as the inevitable black thread appears.
3
Thus ends, in unavoidable inadequacy, the attempt to utter the unutterable things.
4
The men merely gaped and observed the miraculous revival with faith unutterable.
5
The reviewing page of the standard newspaper fills me with unutterable depression.
1
It's an indefinable quality, but pedigree sure counts in Europe's premier competition.
2
Simply being alive at that moment seemed, in some indefinable way, ungentlemanly.
3
He hadn't exactly matured; but he had in some indefinable sense broadened.
4
The quality of Theroen's voice as he spoke the word was indefinable.
5
Inside the drain, something indefinable glistened, reflecting the flashlight beam; it moved.
1
The young people picked up on something strong and unnameable in him.
2
An unnameable tune tried to begin, then gave up with a mechanical sigh.
3
An unnameable worry becomes a nameable one -a loss or a cut.
4
It was not a curse, nor a prayer, but some third possibility, unnameable.
5
Be sure that at the worst the unnameable shall not happen to the maids.
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What untellable joys and ecstasies-whatsupport to martyrs at the stake-fromit.
2
The untellable thing-forSkag alone-lingeredin Carlin's eyes, in the pallor of her face.
3
The broth and arrowroot, and other messes, sir, that she makes me swallow, are untellable.
4
There was a famous story of "a n'orse"-butthat is untellable.
5
She would ask him to tell her about his vision; and was not the thing untellable?
1
As animated, as diversified, as social, but with circumstances of superiority undescribable.
2
He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable.
3
To hear that he was still in being gave an undescribable relief to her mind.
4
But now quiet, save for an undescribable, whispering overtone that seemed to permeate the air.
5
Death in this form, death from the hand of a brother, was thought upon with undescribable repugnance.
Usage of ineffable in anglès
1
The silence was a tribute to the ineffable sanctity of the place.
2
It is the initial of the ineffable name, as known by us.
3
The ineffable peace of Death seemed to dwell upon the quiet features.
4
She watched me in silence, and with an air of ineffable solicitude.
5
The eyes of Venetia Corona followed her with something of ineffable pity.
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The cutlery weighs about a pound- aheftthat sends some ineffable message.
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The ineffable sacred pureness of another dawn came in, gray, tranquil, penetrating.
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He approached Colomban and casting upon him a look of ineffable disdain:
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In his heart pulsed the sweet song of spring's first ineffable bird.
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Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality.
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However, in your ineffable wisdom, you have fattened her up with mystery.
12
Rose gave her a glance of ineffable happiness and appeal for sympathy.
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These words were accompanied by a look of ineffable tenderness and sincerity.
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They were full of an ineffable sense of happiness inexplicable to himself.
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She turned her head from him with an expression of ineffable disgust.
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We were fed with an ineffable odor, which delighted and satisfied us.
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