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inexpressible

adj

Etymology

From in- + expressible.

  1. derived from expressus
  2. borrowed from exprès
  3. suffixed as expressible — “express + ible”
  4. prefixed as inexpressible — “in + expressible”

Definitions

  1. Unable to be expressed

    Unable to be expressed; not able to be put into words.

    • She felt inexpressible contempt for her attackers.
    • That noise, that awful clamour of uncouthness inexpressible, is the love-call of the storm bird!
    • She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inexpressible. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA