ineffable
Something that is beyond utteranceSomething that is beyond utterance; something unspeakable.
» Something ineffable about you fascinates me, woman.
Etwas Unaussprechliches an dir fasziniert mich, Frau. — carlosalberto
Что-то невыразимое в тебе очаровывает меня, женщина. — carlosalberto
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1 sensesSomething that is beyond utterance; something unspeakable.
Examples
7 sentencesSomething ineffable about you fascinates me, woman.
ruЧто-то невыразимое в тебе очаровывает меня, женщина. — carlosalberto
deEtwas Unaussprechliches an dir fasziniert mich, Frau. — carlosalberto
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.“ — raggione
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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Forms
plural: ineffables| Singular | ineffable |
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.