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Definition of Indescribable
1. Adjective. Defying expression or description. "A thing of untellable splendor"
Similar to: Inexpressible, Unexpressible
Definition of Indescribable
1. a. Incapable of being described.
Definition of Indescribable
1. Adjective. Impossible, or very difficult to describe. ¹
2. Adjective. Exceeding all description. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Indescribable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indescribable
Literary usage of Indescribable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"One Hour of Indescribable Havoc on the Land ... Its Rapidity and Force Indescribable.—-
Demolition of Hundreds of Buildings.—Orchards and Forests Instantly ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"The houses, too, have a certain touch about their order of architecture that
lends an indescribable " operatic'' air to the whole place. ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... condensation, or due revision; and yet, in spite of all these defects, it
possesses the 42 F delightful and indescribable flavour of genius. ..."
4. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Dying Left by the Wayside — Scenes of Indescribable Horror — Hydrophobia —
Curious Facts Concerning the Bite of n Skunk — Awaiting the Worst of Fates ..."
5. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... father would have settled there—Kirkup the necromancer—A miraculous birth—A
four-year-old medium—The mysterious touch—An indescribable horror—Not even a ..."
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