ineffable
Beyond expression in wordsBeyond expression in words; unspeakable.
» Something ineffable about you fascinates me, woman.
Etwas Unaussprechliches an dir fasziniert mich, Frau.
Что-то невыразимое в тебе очаровывает меня, женщина.
Meaning
2 senses(not comparable)Beyond expression in words; unspeakable.
unaussprechlich
невырази́мыйnevyrazímyj, несказа́нныйneskazánnyj, неопису́емыйneopisújemyj
невимо́внийnevymóvnyj
defying expression or description
(not comparable)Forbidden to be uttered; taboo.
too sacred to be uttered
Examples
7 sentencesSomething ineffable about you fascinates me, woman.
ruЧто-то невыразимое в тебе очаровывает меня, женщина.
deEtwas Unaussprechliches an dir fasziniert mich, Frau.
Questions about the ineffable are answered with silence.
Its taste is ineffable.
In the April air there hang an ineffable perfume which whispered the secret name of spring.
"What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table; "I never read such rubbish in my life."
de„Was für ein unsäglich dummes Zeug!“ rief ich aus und knallte die Zeitschrift auf den Tisch. „So einen Quatsch habe ich in meinem ganzen Leben noch nicht gelesen.“
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Middle French ineffable, a learned borrowing from Latin ineffābilis, from inBorrowed from Middle French ineffable, a learned borrowing from Latin ineffābilis, from in- (“not”) + effābilis (“utterable”).
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Synonyms
18 synonyms- too sacred to be uttered:unnameableunspeakableunutterable
- defying expression or description:indefinableindescribableunspeakableuntellableunutterable