indescribable

Definition

Impossible (or very difficult) to describe.

Etymology

From in- + describe + -able.

Example Sentences

• "He proved it with indescribable mathematics."
• "Presently the men set up the melancholy little chant that I had heard on the first night when we were captured in the whaleboat, and the effect produced by their voices was very curious, and quite indescribable."
• "But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: [...] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; [...]"

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