The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ineffably \In*ef"fa*bly\, adv.
In a manner not to be expressed in words; unspeakably.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 Intensifies an adjective to mean indescribably. 2 Intensifies an adjective to mean unmentionably.
WordNet
adv. to an inexpressible degree; "she was looking very young tonight, and, as usual, indescribably beautiful, in a simple strapless dress of a green and white silky cotton" [syn: indescribably, unutterably, unspeakably]
Usage examples of "ineffably".
And as he turned the corner into Salem Yard he saw something glitter, he saw something flash, and he knew in that instant that it was the famous Negrohead opal, which he had seen that one time before when his lady cousin occasioned the assistance of the Metropolitan Police to rescue the girl Bessie Lovejoy, then in process of being purchased for the ill-famed Khowadja of Al-Khebur by the ineffably evil Motilal Smith.
Bauchelain had triggered unease in the captain, then this manhis broad, round face, his eyes buried in puffed flesh and wide full-lipped mouth set slightly downturned at the corners, a face both childlike and ineffably monstroussent ripples of fear through Gruntle.
Could He be unwilling to be the constructor of works, the idea and plan of which called for His ineffable and ineffably to be praised intelligence?