indescribable
/ɪndɪˈskrʌɪbəb(ə)l
/adjective
Too unusual, extreme, or indefinite to be adequately described: most prisoners suffered indescribable hardship...
- As for the three-day trek there was no point in describing the indescribable.
- The question really comes down to being asked to describe the indescribable.
- How does one describe an incredibly beautiful land and its indescribable tragedy?
Synonyms
inexpressible, undefinable, beyond words/description, beggaring description, nameless, incommunicable, ineffable, unutterable, unspeakable;
intense, extreme, acute, strong, powerful, profound;
incredible, extraordinary, remarkable, prodigious;
indefinite, unanalysable, intangible, impalpable, elusive, fugitive
Derivatives
indescribability
- There is no quiet anymore, no secret pools where fairies dwell, no empty, glowing moments of indescribability.
- Their strongest asset has always been the sheer indescribability of their sound - they take all sorts of styles and craft a composite of natural, fluid sound.
- It's taken him years just to process it all, to be able to compress nine months of indescribability into a few sentences.
indescribably
/ adverb [as submodifier]: it was indescribably boring...
- The person responsible for such an indescribably appalling crime must be taken off the streets because it is inevitable he will strike again.
- The second is the view which is indescribably beautiful.
- The times in which we live are indescribably difficult and troubled.