as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
the indescribable immensity of Mount Everest
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Recent Examples of indescribable
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Fundamentalism, which shifts the balance between authority structures and the indescribable divine, emerged after medieval society gave way to the modern.
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Andrew Latham, JSTOR Daily, 27 Mar. 2025
Holding her baby for the first time was indescribable.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
And that indescribable thing that makes a great player a great winner, check that one, too.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2025
The doctors also spoke about their personal challenges and the indescribable struggles of their colleagues in Gaza.
—Camilla Alcini, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
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Andrew Latham, JSTOR Daily, 27 Mar. 2025
Holding her baby for the first time was indescribable.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
And that indescribable thing that makes a great player a great winner, check that one, too.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2025
The doctors also spoke about their personal challenges and the indescribable struggles of their colleagues in Gaza.
—Camilla Alcini, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indescribable
Adjective
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Munn: These are people who have incredible wealth and are crumbling in front of your eyes.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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De Bruyne produced chances, goals and memorable moments at an incredible, unerring rate over 10 trophy-laden seasons at City.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The last 17 months have seen unspeakable destruction and death wrought upon a people who, during the previous 20 years, lived under blockade by the Israeli military and the brutal regime of Hamas.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Those moments when intuitions remain unspoken and unspeakable are only part of life.—
Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.—
Erin Maglaque,
The New York Review of Books,
15 Nov. 2024
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Indeed, there is something more cosmic, spiritual and inexpressible about what is missing —a poignant reminder of the profound void left by SOPHIE’s departure from our astral plane.—
Juan Velasquez,
Them,
23 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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The film’s energetic abstraction—accelerating into the deepest, ineffable parts of our souls—is one way art can respond to the challenge of technology.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2025
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There are also plenty of new songs (even the trio of musical numbers carried over from the original have extensive new lyrics from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul), though none of them have the same special, ineffable quality of the originals.—
Josh Spiegel,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Two high voices — LACO features soprano Amanda Forsythe and countertenor John Holiday — intertwine with the orchestra turning this hymn to the Virgin Mary’s suffering into unutterable sweetness and treating death as life’s engenderment.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2024
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In between loads of cartoonish ultraviolence and B-movie horror ephemera came some honestly unutterable lyrics, which Bill fought his faith to perform.—
Jonathan Rowe,
SPIN,
28 June 2022
Adjective
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Her work often explores indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2025
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An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Nov. 2024
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“Indescribable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indescribable. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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