indescribable
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5.4
- adjective
- /ˌɪndɪˈskraɪbəbəl/
- As you can imagine, our joy and relief was indescribable, and we boarded the plane for Italy happy and carefree as children.
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Watch on YouTubeThe pain was indescribable, how much pain I was in.
- The pain was indescribable, how much pain I was in.
- There's a, there's a sadness that is indescribable.
- And to be able to do that for my parents was truly indescribable and absolutely priceless.
- Without any exaggeration, this sorrow and suffering are indescribable.
- Several students communicated the indescribable hurt of bearing witness to injustice.
- The level of heartbreak that I felt immediately after that gunshot was indescribable.
- Try to say there's something very simple and indescribable and absolute about these primary sensations.
- But perhaps that's like almost indescribable the the details of that control.
- So you have a, a organization indescribable for, for, for black people.
- White Chapel and Bethnal Green in London, again indescribable.
- And those were the delta between those two things are indescribable.
Examples
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lt was filled with indescribable joy.
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And to be able to do that for my parents was truly indescribable and absolutely priceless.
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My years in Africa live within me with indescribable force.
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- Yeah, it's an amazing feeling, you know, it's indescribable really.
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"To come out with the win at the end, it's the most indescribable feeling ever."
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Losing someone like a parent is an indescribable feeling and it's not easy.
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The feeling is indescribable just to be here, still breathing.
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The degree of devastation is indescribable.
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Several students communicated the indescribable hurt of bearing witness to injustice.
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The beauty of the sunset was indescribable, leaving everyone in awe.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Causing great surprise and admiration
∞
3.5
Very surprising or hard to believe
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3.8
Very unusual or much greater than usual
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4.9
Very surprising and almost impossible to accept as true
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3.4
Very surprising and making you feel great wonder
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5.3
Very large and surprising in a way that shocks you
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4.1
So surprising and impressive that you feel amazed
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5.4
So strange or large that people cannot believe it
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2.7
Very strange and like a dream or story, not real
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7.2
Too terrible to describe in words
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7.4
Impossible to imagine or believe
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5.1
So surprising and impressive that it changes how you feel or think
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7.0
Very surprising or hard to understand
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6.7
Very large or impressive in a way that amazes people
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6.0
So good or special that nothing else matches it
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6.2
So beautiful or moving that you cannot describe it
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4.6
Much better than you could imagine or hope for
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9.5
So great that words cannot describe it
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6.9
Hard to describe or explain in words
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7.5
A feeling so strong that you cannot describe it in words
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8.9
Too great or strong to put into words
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7.7
Too hard to describe in words
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8.4
So strong or deep that words cannot describe it
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9.9
So great you cannot describe it in words
Antonyms
How Describable
Surface Forms
Morphology
indescribable = describable (transparent) = in + describe + able
The prefix 'in-' straightforwardly negates 'describable', yielding the meaning 'not able to be described'.
Etymology
Indescribable breaks into in- meaning 'not' and scribere meaning 'to write', the same root you see in scribe and script. So something indescribable is 'not able to be written' or so unusual and wonderful that words cannot fully show it.