ineffable
too great or extreme to be expressed in words
Word origin: From Latin effari, to speak out, from fari, to speak.
Ineffable in a sentence
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Standing at the summit, she felt an ineffable sense of awe.
The summit offered a view of such ineffable grandeur that the climbers fell silent.
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Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
Using “ineffable” well
Ineffable describes feelings or experiences too overwhelming to put into words, and it contrasts with describable and expressible.
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