as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
the indescribable immensity of Mount Everest
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Recent Examples of indescribable
Tackling me to the ground, the elation was indescribable.
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Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
The smell after a rain is indescribable.
—Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Drowning in an indescribable emptiness, Day chases Dusk to the throne room and beats the ever-living hell out of him, but Dusk has something Day doesn’t — nanites.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
The emotional and spiritual endpoint for most Camino routes in Santiago de Compostela—the overwhelming sense of accomplishment—is indescribable.
—Hayley Domin, AFAR Media, 10 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for indescribable
Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
The smell after a rain is indescribable.
—Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Drowning in an indescribable emptiness, Day chases Dusk to the throne room and beats the ever-living hell out of him, but Dusk has something Day doesn’t — nanites.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
The emotional and spiritual endpoint for most Camino routes in Santiago de Compostela—the overwhelming sense of accomplishment—is indescribable.
—Hayley Domin, AFAR Media, 10 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for indescribable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indescribable
Adjective
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Just another day of incredible moments at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.—
Alex Valdes,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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And that’s an incredible quality.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Based on true events, Lost Girls focuses on the aftermath of unspeakable crimes rather than the crimes themselves.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026
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The mood was of unspeakable sadness and grief.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 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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Leadership is often treated as something mystical—an ineffable quality possessed by a lucky few.—
Rodger Dean Duncan,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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No matter the parameters, the one thing the most romantic hotels in the world all have in common is that ineffable sense of escape.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
22 Jan. 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
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Two high voices — LACO features soprano Amanda Forsythe and countertenor John Holiday — intertwine with the orchestra turning this hymn to the Virgin Mary’s suffering into unutterable sweetness and treating death as life’s engenderment.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2024
Adjective
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Of course, beauty is subject to taste and culture and all sorts of indefinable things.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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But there was something intangible at stake: Momentum, that indefinable quality that can define a playoff run.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Indescribable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indescribable. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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