as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
unutterable joy that a baby can bring to a household the unutterable suffering brought on by the war
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Recent Examples of unutterable
An idle scroll through any social media feed will reveal violent language against Jewish people that was considered widely unutterable a few years ago.
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Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
1 May 2026
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.
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Literary Hub,
4 Dec. 2025
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.
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Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2024
In between loads of cartoonish ultraviolence and B-movie horror ephemera came some honestly unutterable lyrics, which Bill fought his faith to perform.
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Jonathan Rowe,
SPIN,
28 June 2022
To my mind, these experiences rub our faces in the unutterable weirdness of existence, which transcends all our knowledge and forms of expression.
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John Horgan,
Scientific American,
25 June 2021
And where the two met, ideas that once seemed unutterable started, to many, to sound like the future.
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Anand Giridharadas,
Time,
21 Nov. 2019
But Rosamund Young’s The Secret Life of Cows deserves its sudden reputation as a first-hand account of unutterable charm.
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Eve MacSweeney,
Vogue,
15 June 2018
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
1 May 2026
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,
4 Dec. 2025
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
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
To my mind, these experiences rub our faces in the unutterable weirdness of existence, which transcends all our knowledge and forms of expression.
—
John Horgan,
Scientific American,
25 June 2021
And where the two met, ideas that once seemed unutterable started, to many, to sound like the future.
—
Anand Giridharadas,
Time,
21 Nov. 2019
But Rosamund Young’s The Secret Life of Cows deserves its sudden reputation as a first-hand account of unutterable charm.
—
Eve MacSweeney,
Vogue,
15 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unutterable
Adjective
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In the 29th minute, Argentina sent a pass toward the net, and Messi beat the defense with an incredible first step.
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Cape Verde came astonishingly close to taking defending champions Argentina all the way to penalties, eventually falling to a 3-2 extra-time defeat despite an incredible goal from full-back Sidny Lopes Cabral.
Adjective
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When once-unspeakable truths break through and are finally said aloud, that is a win.
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The prosecution claims David did this unspeakable crime while in the grips of a night terror, and his friends and family seemingly believe that story.
Adjective
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Nonetheless, Simón stirs up the ineffable sadness that comes with wanting answers to the mysteries of your family — and then, like it or not, receiving them.
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That, for you at least, that ineffable quality that gives a density, a weight.
Adjective
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There has been an indescribable joy sweeping New York City as of late, thanks to an unprecedented week of athletic endeavors.
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From there, make room for Karolina Wydra, in a very tricky and indescribable Pluribus role; Allison Janney as the ultimate sparring partner in The Diplomat; and Amanda Peet, constantly threatening to steal Your Friends and Neighbors entirely.
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.
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Margaret would whisper in the dark and laugh quietly, entertained by her own incommunicable thoughts.
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Our movie tastes are determined by some indefinable electrical current of enthusiasm or joy or deep, radiating sadness, or some combination of the three.
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Of course, beauty is subject to taste and culture and all sorts of indefinable things.
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