ineffable

Definition

Beyond expression in words; unspeakable.

Etymology

From Middle French ineffable (modern French ineffable), from Latin ineffābilis, from in- (“not”) + effor (“utter”) + -bilis (“-able”).

Example Sentences

• "Devotion bids aspire to nobler things, to boundless love, and joys ineffable: and such her expectation from kind Heav'n."
• "Stroeve was trying to express a feeling which he had never known before, and he did not know how to put it into common terms. He was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable."
• "They, and many others, are one with the trains that ran them, part of that ineffable atmosphere of Scotland's railways."