
Meaning of UNSPEAKABLE
| Pronunciation: | | un'speekubul
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WordNet Dictionary |
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- [adj] defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
- [adj] exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
- [adj] too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"
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UNSPEAKABLE is a 11 letter word that starts with U. |
| | Synonyms: | | abominable, atrocious, awful, bad, dreadful, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inexpressible, painful, sacred, terrible, unexpressible, unnameable, untellable, unutterable |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Un*speak"a*ble\, a. [Pref. un- not + speakable.]
Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately
described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as,
unspeakable grief or rage. -- {Un*speak"a*bly}, adv.
Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. --1
Pet. i. 8.
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