adjective
- Too sacred to be uttered.
- usage: "the ineffable name of the Deity"
- synonyms: ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable
- 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, unspeakable, untellable
- Very difficult to pronounce correctly.
- usage: "an unpronounceable foreign word"; "unutterable consonant clusters"
- synonyms: unpronounceable
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