Meanings
comparative more indescribably · superlative most indescribably
- In an indescribable manner.
The appearance of the dead was indescribably ghastly.
1879, John McElroy, chapter 24, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons2 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
Cite this entry
indescribably. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indescribably
“indescribably.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indescribably. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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