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Unutterable

adjective
1.
Too sacred to be uttered.  Synonyms: ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable.
2.
Defying expression or description.  Synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable.  "Indescribable beauty" , "Ineffable ecstasy" , "Inexpressible anguish" , "Unspeakable happiness" , "Unutterable contempt" , "A thing of untellable splendor"
3.
Very difficult to pronounce correctly.  Synonym: unpronounceable.  "Unutterable consonant clusters"






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"Unutterable" Quotes from Famous Books



... twenty who knows how to carve; and as to ladies, though they did know once on a time, they do not now. What can be more pitiable than the right-hand man of the lady of the house, awkward enough in himself, with the dish twisted round to him in the most awkward possible position, digging in unutterable mortification for a joint which he cannot find, and wishing the unanatomisable volaille behind a Russian screen with ...
— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock

... and gave him a look of unutterable gratitude. "Besides this hand of mine, are there not the gentler hands of Amelie to intercede for you with ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... out, when a match grated, a little glow leaped up, and Ibrahim, looking strangely tall and vast in the black woollen abayeh which he had put on as a protection against the cold, was partially revealed, she sprang towards him with a feeling of unutterable relief. ...
— Bella Donna - A Novel • Robert Hichens

... responsibility, it might seem to be out of the question; and so, verily, it was; for her little body, acted on by the big thoughts, was moved from one side to another all night, so that she never slept a wink, still thinking and thinking, in her unutterable grief, of poor Mary, her father's criminal passiveness, and that most occult remedy which so completely ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII. • Various

... of summer kiss in flame and rain, And are not found again; But the heavens themselves eternal are with fire Of unapproach'd desire, By the aching heart of Love, which cannot rest, In blissfullest pathos so indeed possess'd. O, spousals high; O, doctrine blest, Unutterable in even the happiest sigh; This know ye all Who can recall With what a welling of indignant tears Love's simpleness first hears The meaning of his mortal covenant, And from what pride comes down To wear the crown ...
— The Unknown Eros • Coventry Patmore


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