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Synonyms for indescribable

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Impossible (or very difficult) to describe.

    He proved it with indescribable mathematics.

Related words

Word family
indescribableness indescribability indescribably
Other spellings
undescribable

Example sentences

  • unspeakable Police encountered a scene of unspeakable carnage.
  • ineffable Something ineffable about you fascinates me, woman.
  • unutterable The Real, according to Jacques Lacan, is the unutterable itself.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
indescribablerising
unspeakablerising
ineffablerising
inexpressiblerising
unutterablerising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

6 letters
untold2
8 letters
nameless2
9 letters
ineffable4
10 letters
unnameable, untellable
11 letters
unspeakable4, indefinable5, undefinable, unutterable, inenarrable
13 letters
inexpressible

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (untold2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
indescriptible
Italiano
indescrivibile