unutterable meaning
UK US
unutterable (adjective): defying expression or description.
unutterable has 3 meanings in this dictionary.
unutterable as an adjective
- 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
- too sacred to be uttered
- the ineffable name of the Deity
Synonyms: ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable
Similar: sacred
- very difficult to pronounce correctly
- an unpronounceable foreign word
- unutterable consonant clusters
Synonyms: unpronounceable
Similar: uncommunicative
unutterable in a sentence
- The Real, according to Jacques Lacan, is the unutterable itself.
Scrabble score: 13 (letter breakdown)
Word lists: words starting with UN · words ending in LE · 11-letter words
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