unspeakable
unspeakable
Definition
un·speak·able (-spēk′ə bəl)
adjective
- that cannot be spoken
- marvelous, awesome, etc.; beyond human expression; ineffable
- so bad, evil, etc. as to defy description
- so foul, evil, etc. as to be unfit to be described or discussed unspeakable depravity
- unspecialized
- unspecific
- unspecified
- unspectacular
- unspeculative
- unspent
un·speak′·ably adverb
unspeakable
Synonyms
unspeakable
modif.
unspeakable
Usage Examples
Used with adjective complement
- remain: Although the word remains unspeakable, the Western intelligentsia, conservatives and liberals alike, boldly echo the preferred euphemism, " civilization " .
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- do: There was even a mermaid doing something unspeakable with a fish finger!
- have: Why do I have joy unspeakable and full of glory?
Modifies a noun
- atrocity: How did such a highly cultured people come to commit the unspeakable atrocities of the Third Reich?
- cruelty: Rape, pillage, burning of homes, unspeakable cruelty to children, to women, to old people.
- horror: The unspeakable horror which you have endured will, in time, be merely a bad memory.
- joy: An unspeakable joy filled my heart on the long homeward journey.
- tragedy: To many of you here, you have indeed been brought up in the very shadow of that unspeakable tragedy.
- evil: Upon all which intrusions many unspeakable evils did follow.
Modifying Another Word
- so: But lying in wait is horror so unspeakable it will change them forever!
- almost: A week from now these men on both sides will be doing almost unspeakable things in order to kill each other.
- otherwise: At times, this reflection may provide messages perhaps otherwise unspeakable.
Preposition: in
- pursuit: Wilde is often quoted on the subject: " the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible " .
unspeakable Quotes
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. SeeWilde 909:22.
The English country gentlemangalloping aftera fox^the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Browse dictionary entries near unspeakable
- unspeak
- unsparing
- unsound
- unsought
- unsophisticated
- unsolicited grant service
- unsolicited
- unsolder
- unsocial
- unsociable
