Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Beyond description; inexpressible.
- adjective Inexpressibly bad or objectionable.
- adjective Not to be spoken.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not able to speak.
- Incapable of being spoken or uttered; unutterable; ineffable; inexpressible.
- Extreme; extremely bad: as, an unspeakable fool; an unspeakable play.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Incapable of being
spoken oruttered ;unutterable ;ineffable ;inexpressible . - adjective
Unfit or notpermitted to be spoken ordescribed . - adjective
Extremely bad orobjectionable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective defying expression or description
- adjective too sacred to be uttered
- adjective exceptionally bad or displeasing
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Examples
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This is the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church where religious leaders say the shooting was devastating, but they also say it brought what they call unspeakable amounts of love afterwards.
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Being able to speak the unspeakable is very powerful.
Oh. Oh, you guys. *snif* enderfem 2009
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Being able to speak the unspeakable is very powerful.
All of my artist friends *must* do this. ellen_kushner 2009
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Being able to speak the unspeakable is very powerful.
Saturday night miscellany feste_sylvain 2009
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Being able to speak the unspeakable is very powerful.
Thor's Day lynxreign 2009
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Being able to speak the unspeakable is very powerful.
Tew's Day! rosefox 2009
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After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of erotic risk and imaginative daring, ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweetbut very "American" triumph.
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary 2010
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Being able to speak the unspeakable is very powerful.
Odin's Day juushika 2009
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Being able to speak the unspeakable is very powerful.
Monday theferrett 2009
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Being able to speak the unspeakable is very powerful.
Wicked Faire? pnh 2009
mollusque commented on the word unspeakable
...in full pursuit of the uneatable.
August 17, 2008