What does inexpressible mean?
Definitions for inexpressible
ˌɪn ɪkˈsprɛs ə bəlin·ex·press·ible
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Princeton's WordNet
inexpressible, unexpressibleadjective
defying expression
Wiktionary
inexpressibleadjective
Unable to be expressed.
She felt inexpressible contempt for her attackers.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
inexpressible
Inexpressible Island is a small, rocky island in Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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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
Inexpressibleadjective
not capable of expression or utterance in language; ineffable; unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of inexpressible in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of inexpressible in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of inexpressible in a Sentence
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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!
A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love.
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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