beyond words
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6.2
- idiom
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sin palabras
- And I'm just grateful beyond words for your courage and for your generosity.
It's bizarre beyond words, but beautiful beyond description.
- It's bizarre beyond words, but beautiful beyond description.
- First of all, I was just enjoying myself, just beyond words.
- And I'm just grateful beyond words for your courage and for your generosity.
- And it's just, it's delicious beyond words.
- So this one is titled I love my son beyond words.
- Meeting George was an honour for me beyond words.
- And they're like, it's just precious beyond words.
- But it just looks incredible, Like the way that it's transformed this room is beyond words.
- We need to use language to undermine language to really understand this transcendent reality that is beyond words, that is beyond human concepts.
- The pony and the deer are trapped by tanks, and the lady with the guitar is sad beyond words.
- And I, and I've had, I've had several psychedelic experiences, some of them positive beyond words and some of them awful beyond words.
- Yes, your expression, your expression beyond words, which means how you feel towards something.
Examples
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But it is unique in its proportions, and she thinks it lovely beyond words.
Fiction book (2002) -
"Big Ma says she is proud beyond words to have such a famous photographer in the family."
Fiction book (1996) -
We did not speak much; we were beyond words by now.
Fiction book (1990) -
When it exists for me in reality, I am happy beyond words.
Fiction book (1996) -
I am touched beyond words, Your Majesty.
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Just beautiful beyond words.
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For the first time ever, Emile saw his mother stunned beyond words.
Fiction book (1991) -
You are unselfish and brave beyond words, and have endeared yourself to many.
Blog text (32) -
Thrilled beyond words, they whoop with glee, slapping high-fives as the car streaks past.
Fiction book (1992) -
The view from the mountain top was beyond words, leaving everyone in awe.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Causing great surprise and admiration
∞
3.5
Very surprising or hard to believe
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3.0
Very large or impressive
423
4.4
Very strong in amount or feeling that is hard to deal with
92
4.1
So surprising and impressive that you feel amazed
77
3.5
A very beautiful and surprising sight that amazes you
63
2.7
Very strange and like a dream or story, not real
31
8.8
Far beyond normal limits in experience, knowledge, or quality
28
5.1
So surprising and impressive that it changes how you feel or think
24
5.3
Very large and surprising in a way that shocks you
21
5.4
So wonderful or strange that words cannot show it
21
4.1
Very good and impressive
19
6.7
Very large or impressive in a way that amazes people
16
5.6
Causes people to feel great respect and wonder because it is very impressive
10
6.2
Very deep and extending far down
8
9.5
So great that words cannot describe it
7
4.6
To a very great degree
5
3.4
Very surprising and making you feel great wonder
Much better than you could imagine or hope for
Antonyms
How Moving
14
6.2
7
3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'indescribable' follows directly from combining 'beyond' (more than/on the other side of) with 'words' (language or description): something beyond words is more than can be expressed. This compositional logic is common cross-linguistically and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings.
Etymology
Beyond words creates a simple picture: something is so beautiful, strong, or surprising that it goes past words and cannot be put into speech, because it is beyond them. So it means 'so beautiful, impressive, or moving that it cannot be described in words'.