as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
an ineffable beauty descends upon the canyon as the sun begins to set
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Recent Examples of ineffable
And in later scenes, as Jesse finally confronts Spencer's death, her ineffable pain is etched across Menzel's achingly expressive face.
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
There’s an ineffable beauty in the shot of a pecan being deshelled, the meat suddenly revealed.
—Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
Aquarius teaches us about community and friendship by showing us which friends support our individuality while offering the incredible, ineffable experience of losing ourselves in something greater and more communal.
—Colin Bedell, Them, 16 Jan. 2025
Or is creativity fundamentally serendipitous, tied to something ineffable and deeply human?
—Dan Gardner, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ineffable
Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
There’s an ineffable beauty in the shot of a pecan being deshelled, the meat suddenly revealed.
—Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
Aquarius teaches us about community and friendship by showing us which friends support our individuality while offering the incredible, ineffable experience of losing ourselves in something greater and more communal.
—Colin Bedell, Them, 16 Jan. 2025
Or is creativity fundamentally serendipitous, tied to something ineffable and deeply human?
—Dan Gardner, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ineffable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffable
Adjective
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The incredible semblance of natural language fluency exhibited by the computational capabilities of contemporary LLMs seems to be a sure sign that the road ahead must lead to AGI/ASI.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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The incredible two on the par 5 was just the fourth albatross at the U.S. Open in recorded history and the first since 2012 when Nick Watney made one, according to Justin Ray.—
Troy Finnegan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
Adjective
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Much like birth itself, the human experience of pain is reliably quotidian yet wholly indescribable: Neither words nor images can fully account for the primal, subjective sensations of the body.—
Jessica Simmons-Reid,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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People doing things that are indescribable and not for today to discuss.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 2025
Adjective
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Charo is fleeing the life that’s expected of her as a woman; Sal after an unspeakable tragedy.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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The iron fist, meanwhile, shown by the state in preventing those extradited to El Salvador’s prisons so much as a word to say represents none other than the nation’s return to unspeakable cruelty and derangement.—
Amir Hussain
June 6,
Literary Hub,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.—
Erin Maglaque,
The New York Review of Books,
15 Nov. 2024
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.—
Erin Maglaque,
The New York Review of Books,
15 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Her work often explores indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2025
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An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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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
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In between loads of cartoonish ultraviolence and B-movie horror ephemera came some honestly unutterable lyrics, which Bill fought his faith to perform.—
Jonathan Rowe,
SPIN,
28 June 2022
Adjective
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Piranesi is a mystery, a mystery of the mind, a way for Clarke to communicate the incommunicable.—
Jason Kehe,
Wired,
21 Sep. 2020
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And nothing is more isolating, more incommunicable, than the grief of a parent who has been unable to save their child’s life.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
31 Aug. 2022
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“Ineffable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffable. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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