as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
some indefinable quality makes that movie star very appealing
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Recent Examples of indefinable
This East Coast city earns high marks year after year for its various dining options, museums, and the indefinable, electric energy of the city that never sleeps.
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Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
Her work often explores indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2025
An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
When the two creatives become housemates, an indefinable friendship sparks.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 24 June 2024
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Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
Her work often explores indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2025
An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
When the two creatives become housemates, an indefinable friendship sparks.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 24 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indefinable
Adjective
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Athletes are always getting bigger, stronger, and faster, and doing ever more incredible things.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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Rai’s incredible run continued with another birdie on 13, putting the 31-year-old in great position to make history for his nation.—
Kevin Dotson,
CNN Money,
17 May 2026
Adjective
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Researchers tend to define consciousness loosely as the ability to experience—the subjective, ineffable feeling of being alive.—
Emma Gometz,
Scientific American,
15 May 2026
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Such is the ineffable at-once-ness of these moments.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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For David and Tara Heidenreich, the moment their son Eli became a Steeler was nearly indescribable.—
Ross Guidotti,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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So Clark, for whom physical intimacy with Carol is still something of a new adventure, recommends looking out for those little indescribable, unique physical details of a person that enhance presence and attraction.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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If everything is systematically interlinked, then life’s transcendent beauty is inextricable from its inexpressible horrors and outright silliness, like the jarring swings between slapstick and tragedy in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.—
Jack Denton,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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Instead, there were chuckles to hold back anger and carefully chosen words to express what felt inexpressible.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The actually unspeakable bit is whether women’s access to education and the job market should be restricted, in the name of producing more babies and saving civilization.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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Three hundred pages of unspeakable horror.—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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But because some crucial part of artistic expression is always slipping toward the incommunicable, the most powerful art is sometimes less a dialogue than a soliloquy.—
Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
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Margaret would whisper in the dark and laugh quietly, entertained by her own incommunicable thoughts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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An idle scroll through any social media feed will reveal violent language against Jewish people that was considered widely unutterable a few years ago.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
1 May 2026
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Stripped of orchestral arrangement, the emotion in Ross’s voice provokes that unutterable connection that makes singer and listener one in a desire to act in the present for the present.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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It was largely created by the unexplainable genius of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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This complex of Mayan vestiges serves as a testament to the mysterious and unexplainable engineering feats of this ancient civilization.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Indefinable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indefinable. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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