indescribably
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
indescribable + -ly
Adverb[edit]
indescribably (comparative more indescribably, superlative most indescribably)
- In an indescribable manner.
- 1879, John McElroy, chapter 24, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons:
- The appearance of the dead was indescribably ghastly.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- There was something indescribably nerve-shaking and menacing in that constant mutter, which seemed to shape itself into the very syllables of the half-breed, endlessly repeated, "We will kill you if we can."
- 2023 October 11, David Yaffe-Bellany, Matthew Goldstein, J. Edward Moreno}, quoting Caroline Ellison, “Caroline Ellison Says She and Sam Bankman-Fried Lied for Years”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- “I felt this sense of relief that I didn’t have to lie anymore, and that I could start taking responsibility even though I felt indescribably bad.”
Translations[edit]
in an indescribable manner
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