inexpressible

Examples

• All

• The inexpressible beauty of the mountains took my breath away, rendering me momentarily silent.

• I am overcome by an inexpressible awe that anything on earth could be so vast, so beautiful, so silent.

  Academic text (2004)

• Nor can any words come up to the inexpressible

  Academic text (2007)

• It's an inexpressible honor and privilege to stand on this stage beside him.

• There is one problem with intuition, however: it is inexpressible in words.

  Academic text (1996)

• It leaves me with a sense of inexpressible shock.

  MacArthur (1977)

• I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Maitland's triumphant arrival, he said, brought "inexpressible joy to the whole army."

  Academic text (2014)

• We feel we are fumbling in the dark, groping for words to express the inexpressible.

  Blog text (12)

• The sadness I felt after saying goodbye was inexpressible, leaving me speechless.

Synonyms

U

unspeakable

vsinexpressible

58 7.2

Too terrible to describe in words

is the general word without implying moral badness

I

indescribable

vsinexpressible

21 5.4

So wonderful or strange that words cannot show it

is the neutral impossibility label rather than a word praising wonder

I

ineffable

vsinexpressible

• Formal

8 9.5

So great that words cannot describe it

is the general word for anything impossible to express not only sacred things

I

indefinable

vsinexpressible

4 6.9

Hard to describe or explain in words

is the general impossibility to put into words rather than only lack of precision

U

undefinable

vsinexpressible

3 6.8

Hard to describe exactly in words

is about total inability to express not only lack of precise definition

U

unnamable

vsinexpressible

1 7.7

Too hard to describe in words

focuses specifically on being impossible to express not just naming

U

unsayable

vsinexpressible

1 8.5

Too hard to put into words

is absolute impossibility rather than mere difficulty

U

untellable

vsinexpressible

9.9

So great you cannot describe it in words

is the general term for anything impossible to express in words

U

unexpressible

vsinexpressible

8.4

So strong or deep that words cannot describe it

is the same meaning but uses a different negative prefix in writing

Antonyms

E

expressible

1 5.3

Able to be put into words or shown by actions

How Expressible

expressive

41 3.4

unexpressive

5.5

inarticulate

9 7.4

ineffable

• Formal

8 9.5

indescribable

21 5.4

inexpressible

3 7.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology