unutterable

Examples

• All

• It's just a shame that this happy day won't arrive in time for Americans to share with the rest of the species the unutterable thrill of watching Lionel Messi at play.

  Blog text (17)

• The artist captured an unutterable beauty in her painting that words could not adequately describe.

• A sense of unutterable sadness came over him.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Harsh though these conditions were, Maria embraced them with unutterable relief and joy.

  Academic text (1999)

• When it was finally over, he knelt above her, smiling down, allowing the exquisite, unutterable sense of victory to surge through him.

  Fiction book (1996)

• There was unutterable pride, tension and anguish in that girl's face as she approached the halls of learning, with history jeering at her back.

  I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

• The ending she seeks, like all true endings, is rather something invisible and unutterable.

  Academic text (1993)

• The chaos of yesterday is now tamed, overcome by an unutterable serenity, as if someone has waved a magic wand over the town.

  Academic text (2004)

• After the tragic news, an unutterable grief filled the air and left everyone speechless.

• In the face of loss, he felt an unutterable loneliness that enveloped him like a thick fog.

Synonyms

O

overwhelming

vsunutterable

423 4.4

Very strong in amount or feeling that is hard to deal with

describes extreme magnitude but not specifically the failure of words to express it

U

unimaginable

vsunutterable

63 5.4

So strange or large that people cannot believe it

stresses overwhelming intensity that makes expression fail rather than difficulty imagining

U

unspeakable

vsunutterable

58 7.2

Too terrible to describe in words

covers overwhelming greatness rather than chiefly moral badness or horror

I

indescribable

vsunutterable

21 5.4

So wonderful or strange that words cannot show it

emphasizes extreme scale or intensity more than wonder or novelty

I

incalculable

vsunutterable

13 8.1

Too great to measure or count

relates to intense or extreme quality rather than large quantity

I

ineffable

vsunutterable

• Formal

8 9.5

So great that words cannot describe it

is general extreme intensity rather than religious or sacred quality

I

indefinable

vsunutterable

4 6.9

Hard to describe or explain in words

highlights sheer magnitude or overwhelm rather than mere lack of precise definition

I

inexpressible

vsunutterable

3 7.5

A feeling so strong that you cannot describe it in words

focuses on extreme size or intensity rather than general inexpressibility

U

unnamable

vsunutterable

1 7.7

Too hard to describe in words

focuses more on vastness or intensity than on inability to name specifically

U

untellable

vsunutterable

9.9

So great you cannot describe it in words

has identical meaning and differs only in form from the head entry

U

unexpressible

vsunutterable

8.4

So strong or deep that words cannot describe it

stresses greatness or overwhelming quality rather than just strong feeling

I

immensurable

vsunutterable

9.9

Too great to measure

is about indescribable emotional or sensory intensity rather than measurability

Antonyms

E

expressible

1 5.3

Able to be put into words or shown by actions

Compounds

U

unutterable pain

• Literature

8.6

A feeling of pain too strong to describe in words

How Expressible

unutterable

• Literature

1 8.9

inexpressible

3 7.5

indescribable

21 5.4

describable

1 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology