unutterable meaning

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unutterable (adjective): defying expression or description.

unutterable has 3 meanings in this dictionary.

unutterable as an adjective

  1. defying expression or description
    • indefinable yearnings
    • indescribable beauty
    • ineffable ecstasy
    • inexpressible anguish
    • unspeakable happiness
    • unutterable contempt
    • a thing of untellable splendor

    Synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable

    Similar: inexpressible

  2. too sacred to be uttered
    • the ineffable name of the Deity

    Synonyms: ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable

    Similar: sacred

  3. very difficult to pronounce correctly
    • an unpronounceable foreign word
    • unutterable consonant clusters

    Synonyms: unpronounceable

    Similar: uncommunicative

unutterable in a sentence

Scrabble score: 13 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with UN · words ending in LE · 11-letter words

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