Definition of Indescribable

1. Adjective. Defying expression or description. "A thing of untellable splendor"


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

independent scholar
independent set
independent sets
independent variable
independent variables
independentize
independently
independently wealthy
independents
indeposable
indeprivable
indepthly
inderborite
inderite
indescribability
indescribable (current term)
indescribableness
indescribably
indescript
indescriptive
indesert
indeserts
indesinent
indesinently
indesirable
indestructable
indestructibility
indestructible
indestructibleness
indestructibly

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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