Meaning

5 senses
  1. Incapable of being spoken or uttered.

    1855-1882, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, book xv, The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows.

    unsäglich

    непередава́емыйneperedavájemyj, несказа́нныйneskazánnyj, неопису́емыйneopisújemyj

    too sacred to be uttered

  2. Impossible to speak about.

  3. Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.

  4. Extremely bad or objectionable.

    an unspeakable fool

    an unspeakable play

    exceptionally bad or displeasing

  5. (not comparable)That cannot be referenced in source code, due to having no usable name.

    an instance of an unspeakable type

Examples

11 sentences
  1. The things he did, they're unspeakable.

  2. Police encountered a scene of unspeakable carnage.

  3. Yanni showed unspeakable violence.

  4. It’s an unspeakable war.

  5. We have to imagine what it would be like for our family, for our children, if the unspeakable happened to us.

Translations

7 languages
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Deutsch
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incapable of being spoken or uttered:

Origin

From Middle English unspekable, equivalent to un- + speakable.

From Middle English unspekable, equivalent to un- + speakable.

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Forms

more unspeakable, most unspeakable
Comparativemore unspeakable Lesson
Superlativemost unspeakable Lesson

regular

Synonyms

14 synonyms

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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