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
Or is creativity fundamentally serendipitous, tied to something ineffable and deeply human?
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Dan Gardner, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
There’s an intangible, ineffable quality to it, but the reviews are glowing.
—Justin Williams, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
In 2024, the albums that meant the most to me harkened back to that grade-school reading assignment with their ability to capture and define the ineffable.
—Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024
Light, of course, has long formed an ineffable through line in the work of Roman and Williams.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 19 Nov. 2024
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Dan Gardner, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
There’s an intangible, ineffable quality to it, but the reviews are glowing.
—Justin Williams, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
In 2024, the albums that meant the most to me harkened back to that grade-school reading assignment with their ability to capture and define the ineffable.
—Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024
Light, of course, has long formed an ineffable through line in the work of Roman and Williams.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 19 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffable
Adjective
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Camellias grow slowly but reward patient gardeners with handsome hedges covered in shiny, deep green foliage year-round and incredible winter blooms.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2025
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That’s not too surprising, as collections packed with greatest hits tend to have incredible staying power, especially in the streaming age.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Typically, Soto will show up alone, with loads of fresh flowers and laminated pictures of victims, when something indescribable happens — strangers off the street offer to help set up the display, each taking a moment to contribute to this memorial.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
6 Feb. 2025
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This sends Charlie down a rabbit hole of indescribable grief.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2025
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Rose Ayling-Ellis, an English television presenter and writer of children’s books whose previous acting credits include EastEnders and Casualty, plays that lone survivor of an unspeakable incident, named Aliss.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
23 Apr. 2025
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Published in 1946 and translated into 50 languages with more than 16 million copies sold, Frankl’s account follows his time in the Nazi concentration camps and his exploration of the human will to find meaning in spite of unspeakable adversity.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 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
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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
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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
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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 29 Apr. 2025.
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