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Definition of Ineffably
1. Adverb. 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"
Partainyms: Indescribable, Ineffable, Unspeakable, Unutterable
Definition of Ineffably
1. adv. In a manner not to be expressed in words; unspeakably.
Definition of Ineffably
1. Adverb. Intensifies an adjective to mean indescribably. ¹
2. Adverb. Intensifies an adjective to mean unmentionably. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ineffably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineffably
Literary usage of Ineffably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus by Claude Delaval Cobham (1908)
"An ineffably sweet smell exhaled from it. The Archbishop was informed, and sent
Ephraim, a schoolmaster, afterwards Patriarch of Jerusalem, ..."
2. The Evolution of Immortality by Samuel David McConnell (1901)
"Such a crowning wonder seems to me no more than the fit climax to a creative work
that has been ineffably beautiful and marvellous in all its myriad changes ..."
3. Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism: A Chapter in the History of Socialism in France by Arthur John Booth (1871)
"... his spirit will yet survive, though transformed and ineffably feeble, in the
large inheritance the future will have to acknowledge from the past. ..."
4. A Brief Account of the Author's Interview with His Countrymen, and of the by Jeremiah O'Donovan (1864)
"... as I thought their habits were good and regular, their manners ineffably
pleasing, and their conversation afforded pleasure and edification. ..."
5. Jack London and Hawaii by Charmian London (1918)
"hard to realize the nearness of the greatest of living volcanoes. Presently Jack
and I became conscious of an ineffably faint yet close sound like '"the ..."
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