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ˌɪn ɪkˈsprɛs ə bəlin·ex·press·ible

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inexpressible, unexpressibleadjective

    defying expression

Wiktionary

  1. inexpressibleadjective

    Unable to be expressed.

    She felt inexpressible contempt for her attackers.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Inexpressibleadjective

    Not to be told; not to be uttered; unutterable.

    Etymology: in and express.

    Thus when in orbs
    Of circuit inexpressible they stood,
    Orb within orb. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. v.

    Nothing can so peculiarly gratify the noble dispositions of human nature, as for one man to see another so much himself as to sigh his griefs, and groan his pains, to sing his joys, and do and feel every thing by sympathy and secret inexpressible communications. Robert South, Sermons.

    The true God had no certain name given to him; for Father, and God, and Creator, are but titles arising from his works; and God is not a name, but a notion ingrafted in human nature of an inexpressible being. Edward Stillingfleet.

    There is an inimitable grace in Virgil 's words; and in them principally consists that beauty, which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best understands their force: this diction of his is never to be copied. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. inexpressible

    Inexpressible Island is a small, rocky island in Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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  1. inexpressible

    Inexpressible refers to something that is too intense, extreme, or complicated to be described or articulated in words. It can also refer to emotions or feelings that are so strong that they cannot be adequately conveyed through language.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inexpressibleadjective

    not capable of expression or utterance in language; ineffable; unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Inexpressible

    in-eks-pres′i-bl, adj. that cannot be expressed: unutterable: indescribable.—n.pl. (coll. and supposed to be humorous) trousers.—adv. Inexpress′ibly.—adj. Inexpress′ive, not expressive or significant.—n. Inexpress′iveness.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of inexpressible in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of inexpressible in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of inexpressible in a Sentence

  1. George Eliot:

    Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

  2. Aldous Huxley:

    After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  3. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

    ART is the medium through which you express the inexpressible, convey the unconveyable, transporting the audience in different realms of existence erasing their mental identities. Any effort by the artist to make an personal identity is detrimental in an artistic sense. Be Wiser, leave no residue dissolve in ART!

  4. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

    A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love.

  5. Justin Welby:

    When it comes to a living and lasting influence upon the worldwide church he can have few equals : for he introduced person after person to Jesus Christ, the debt owed by the global church to him is immeasurable and inexpressible.

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