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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
indescribable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fresh salmon has an indescribable flavor.
▪ I woke up on the day after my wedding with a feeling of indescribable joy.
▪ The chaos and confusion was indescribable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the experience itself is essentially non-rational and indescribable.
▪ The sky, that had been so grey and lowering, was iridescent with indescribable beauty.
▪ Then I skipped down the entry ladder with indescribable relief.
▪ There is a space around it, an indescribable presence.
▪ There is an indescribable sense of community here.
▪ Unlimited discomfort would of course be indescribable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indescribable

Indescribable \In`de*scrib"a*ble\, a. Incapable of being described.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
indescribable

1794, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + describable (see describe). Related: Indescribably; indescribability. In same sense, Old English had unasecgendlic.

Wiktionary
indescribable

a. 1 impossible, or very difficult to describe. 2 exceeding all description.

WordNet
indescribable

adj. defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor" [syn: indefinable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable]

Wikipedia
Indescribable (film)

Indescribable is a 2013 film produced by Thorncrown Project in association with Crystal Creek Media, which produced films such as Creed of Gold and Rather to be Chosen. Filming took place during June and July 2011 in Bryan, Texas. The story is based on the historical events surrounding the writing of the hymn "The Love of God". It was released to home video on April 6, 2013.

Indescribable

Indescribable may refer to:

  • "Indescribable" (song), a song written by Christian songwriter Laura Story and first recorded by Christian musician Chris Tomlin
  • Indescribable (film), a film based on the events surrounding the writing of the hymn, "The Love of God"
  • Indescribable (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse and winner of the 2009 Kentucky Cup Distaff Stakes

Usage examples of "indescribable".

Wilson had given up the expectation of ever seeing her niece the wife of Denbigh, she felt an indescribable shock as she read this paragraph.

He spoke the Lepcha dialect with an indescribable softening of the gutturals.

I looked up the spectrum into the ultraviolet where the colors - I named them brillig and mimsy and high purp - were seething with an indescribable fire.

Javelins began to fly from both sides, and the swelling meeps of the ghouls and the bestial howls of the almosthumans gradually joined the hellish whine of the flutes to form a frantick and indescribable chaos of daemon cacophony.

Once ensconced behind the lectern, Whiss surveyed the audience at length, preternatural tiger-eyes shifting slowly from face to face, sliding easily over some, elsewhere pausing long and significantly, to the indescribable discomfort of assorted victims.

As to the German Princes, who were awaiting the issue of events either at Altolna or Hamburg, when they learned that a definitive treaty of peace had been signed between France and Russia, and that two days after the Treaty of Tilsit the Prussian monarchy was placed at the mercy of Napoleon, every courier that arrived threw them into indescribable agitation.

She was a tall and handsome woman, a year older than Winton, with a long, aristocratic face, deep-blue, rather shining eyes, a gentlemanly manner, warm heart, and one of those indescribable, not unmelodious drawls that one connects with an unshakable sense of privilege.

An indescribable ray of joy illumined that wretched countenance like the last ray of the sun before it disappears behind the clouds which bear the aspect, not of a downy couch, but of a tomb.

They read the tale of men blown to bits, of futile soldiers in that localised battle fighting against hope amidst an indescribable wreckage, of flags hauled down by weeping men.

If I set a million meerkats fleeing in terror, the chaos would be indescribable.

The mystics who had seen Hyperia told of indescribable, magical devices capable of performing motions of complexities that defied imagination.

Antoine was alive with that indescribable uneasy swarming which precedes those strange battles of ideas against deeds which are called Revolutions.

But Henry Rogers lost the remainder of the sentence even if he heard the beginning, for his world was in a state of indescribable turmoil, one emotion tumbling wildly upon the heels of another.

Suddenly—to my indescribable shock—the King’s breeches were down around his ankles.

The Indescribable Force 's irrevocable dictums can then be apprehended by seers, properly interpreted by them, and accumulated in the form of a governing body.