as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
unutterable joy that a baby can bring to a household the unutterable suffering brought on by the war
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Recent Examples of unutterable
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.
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
In between loads of cartoonish ultraviolence and B-movie horror ephemera came some honestly unutterable lyrics, which Bill fought his faith to perform.
—Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
To my mind, these experiences rub our faces in the unutterable weirdness of existence, which transcends all our knowledge and forms of expression.
—John Horgan, Scientific American, 25 June 2021
The score comes with a long theological preface and effusive descriptions of the unutterable in each gaze.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
And where the two met, ideas that once seemed unutterable started, to many, to sound like the future.
—Anand Giridharadas, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
But Rosamund Young’s The Secret Life of Cows deserves its sudden reputation as a first-hand account of unutterable charm.
—Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 15 June 2018
Our minds, formed and informed by their We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
dark, cold
caves.
—Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
But Mac, instead, ended the chapter with lens blurred, in magnificent midsentence, as if the artist's voice were suddenly taken away in an unutterable trail of tears.
—Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
In between loads of cartoonish ultraviolence and B-movie horror ephemera came some honestly unutterable lyrics, which Bill fought his faith to perform.
—Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
To my mind, these experiences rub our faces in the unutterable weirdness of existence, which transcends all our knowledge and forms of expression.
—John Horgan, Scientific American, 25 June 2021
The score comes with a long theological preface and effusive descriptions of the unutterable in each gaze.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
And where the two met, ideas that once seemed unutterable started, to many, to sound like the future.
—Anand Giridharadas, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
But Rosamund Young’s The Secret Life of Cows deserves its sudden reputation as a first-hand account of unutterable charm.
—Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 15 June 2018
Our minds, formed and informed by their We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
dark, cold
caves.
—Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
But Mac, instead, ended the chapter with lens blurred, in magnificent midsentence, as if the artist's voice were suddenly taken away in an unutterable trail of tears.
—Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unutterable
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It’s been an incredible year for gaming in just the first six months, with the release of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (93), Blue Prince (92), Split Fiction (91) and Death Stranding 2 (89).—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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Its heft translates to incredible heat retention and evenly bakes pies with perfect bottom char.—
Francesca Krempa,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
15 July 2025
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As Ernest Burkhart, a simple-minded man manipulated to do unspeakable things, DiCaprio presents his character's moral conflict with complexity.—
Derek Lawrence,
EW.com,
13 July 2025
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The point, of course, isn’t that America’s film industry should be doing more to profit off the back of an unspeakable humanitarian catastrophe.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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This led to a conversation about the right casting for a part, and the mysterious, ineffable quality of performers with chemistry — something Danson doesn't really believe in, but Hunt isn't so sure.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
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That ineffable feeling of danger is what drew so many people to FLAG’s Memorial Day performance.—
Jim Ruland,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
Adjective
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.—
Erin Maglaque,
The New York Review of Books,
15 Nov. 2024
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.—
Erin Maglaque,
The New York Review of Books,
15 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Winant crystallizes this idea of crossing a indescribable threshold through her discussion and analysis of masochism, an intrinsic component of athletic practice that intertwines physical pleasure with pain.—
Jessica Simmons-Reid,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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Winning back-to-back championships is indescribable, Bennett said as his team celebrated on the ice around him Tuesday night.—
Pierre LeBrun,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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Piranesi is a mystery, a mystery of the mind, a way for Clarke to communicate the incommunicable.—
Jason Kehe,
Wired,
21 Sep. 2020
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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
Adjective
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This East Coast city earns high marks year after year for its various dining options, museums, and the indefinable, electric energy of the city that never sleeps.—
Elizabeth Cantrell,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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Her work often explores indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2025
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