ineffable
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
ineffable (not comparable)
- Beyond expression in words; unspeakable. [from 1450]
- Synonyms: indescribable, inexpressible, unspeakable, Thesaurus:indescribable, Thesaurus:incomprehensible
- Antonyms: effable
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 39
- Stroeve was trying to express a feeling which he had never known before, and he did not know how to put it into common terms. He was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable.
- 1990, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
- God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
- 2012, Gay Watson, Stephen Batchelor, Guy Claxton, The Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, science, and our day-to-day lives ↗
- As Alan Watts (1961) wrote, it involves trying to speak the unspeakable, scrute the inscrutable and eff the ineffable.
- Forbidden to be uttered; taboo.
- Synonyms: taboo, unspeakable, unutterable
- French: ineffable, innommable
- German: unaussprechlich
- Portuguese: inefável, indescritível
- Russian: невырази́мый
- Spanish: inefable
- French: tabou, inexprimable, sacré
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