adjective
- Defying expression or description.
- usage: "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
- synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, untellable, unutterable
- Exceptionally bad or displeasing.
- usage: "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
- Too sacred to be uttered.
- usage: "the ineffable name of the Deity"
- synonyms: ineffable, unnameable, unutterable
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