indescribably

English

Etymology

From indescribable +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

indescribably (comparative more indescribably, superlative most indescribably)

1. 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

in an indescribable manner

• Bulgarian: неопису́емо (bg) (neopisúemo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: nepopsatelně
• Dutch: onbeschrijflijk (nl)
• Esperanto: nepriskribeble
• Finnish: kuvaamattomasti, sanoin kuvaamattomasti
• French: indescriptiblement (fr), inexprimablement (fr)
• Georgian: აუწერლად (auc̣erlad)
• German: unbeschreiblich (de)
• Greek: απερίγραπτα (el) (aperígrapta)
• Hungarian: leírhatatlanul
• Italian: indescrivibilmente (it)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: neravebarkî (ku)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ubeskrivelig

  Nynorsk: ubeskriveleg

• Polish: nieopisanie (pl)
• Russian: неопису́емо (ru) (neopisújemo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: неопѝсиво

  Roman: neopìsivo (sh)

• Spanish: indescriptiblemente
• Swedish: obeskrivligt (sv)