indescribably

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adverb

In an indescribable manner.

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Meanings

adverbindescribably (comparative more indescribably, superlative most indescribably)

comparative more indescribably · superlative most indescribably

  1. In an indescribable manner.

    The appearance of the dead was indescribably ghastly.

    1879, John McElroy, chapter 24, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
    2 more examples

    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."

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

    “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.”

    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, →ISSN

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbto an inexpressible degree

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian неопису́емо
  • неопису́емо (neopisúemo)in an indescribable manner
Chinese Mandarin 難以形容地 /难以形容地, 無法描述地 /无法描述地
  • 難以形容地 /难以形容地 (nányǐ xíngróng de)in an indescribable manner
  • 無法描述地 /无法描述地 (wúfǎ miáoshù de)in an indescribable manner
Czech nepopsatelně
  • nepopsatelněin an indescribable manner
Dutch onbeschrijflijk
  • onbeschrijflijkin an indescribable manner
Esperanto nepriskribeble
  • nepriskribeblein an indescribable manner
Finnish kuvaamattomasti, sanoin kuvaamattomasti
  • kuvaamattomastiin an indescribable manner
  • sanoin kuvaamattomastiin an indescribable manner
French indescriptiblement, inexprimablement
  • indescriptiblementin an indescribable manner
  • inexprimablementin an indescribable manner
German unbeschreiblich
  • unbeschreiblichin an indescribable manner
Greek απερίγραπτα
  • απερίγραπτα (aperígrapta)in an indescribable manner
Hungarian leírhatatlanul
  • leírhatatlanulin an indescribable manner
Italian indescrivibilmente
  • indescrivibilmentein an indescribable manner
Norwegian Bokmål ubeskrivelig
  • ubeskriveligin an indescribable manner
Polish nieopisanie
  • nieopisaniein an indescribable manner
Russian неопису́емо
  • неопису́емо (neopisújemo)in an indescribable manner
Spanish indescriptiblemente
  • indescriptiblementein an indescribable manner
Swedish obeskrivligt
  • obeskrivligtin an indescribable manner
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