indescribable
English
Etymology
From in- + describe + -able.
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Adjective
indescribable (comparative more indescribable, superlative most 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; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, 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.
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impossible, or very difficult to describe
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exceeding all description
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Further reading
- “indescribable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “indescribable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.