indescribable
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪndɪˈskɹaɪbəbl̩/
indescribable
- Impossible, or very difficult to describe.
- He proved it with indescribable mathematics.
- 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, OCLC 270548466 ↗; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, OCLC 1107573959 ↗, page 15 ↗:
- But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: [...] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; [...]
- Exceeding all description.
- Our hotel had an indescribable view of the Bay of Naples.
- French: indescriptible
- German: unbeschreiblich
- Portuguese: indescritível
- Russian: неопису́емый
- Spanish: indescriptible
- French: indescriptible
- Portuguese: indescritível
- Russian: неопису́емый
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