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unutterably

adv

Etymology

From unutterable + -ly.

  1. derived from *ūtanā✻ — “from outside or without; outside of”
  2. derived from ūtan
  3. derived from üteren
  4. derived from uteren — “to announce, make known”
  5. inherited from outren
  6. suffixed as utterable — “utter + able”
  7. prefixed as unutterable — “un + utterable”
  8. suffixed as unutterably — “unutterable + ly”

Definitions

  1. In an unutterable manner

    In an unutterable manner; inexpressibly; so bad or otherwise extreme that one cannot talk about it.

    • We both of us went on our knees, and, feeling unutterably sad, a whispered prayer went up from our lips as the poor fellow's soul flitted away to a happier and brighter world, and all was over.
    • I turned away and left her to finish her journey in peace, feeling, but only for a moment or two, that I had been an unutterably mean hound.
    • The rapid reconquest of the capital, Kabul, by the Taliban after two decades of a staggeringly expensive, bloody effort to establish a secular government with functioning security forces in Afghanistan is, above all, unutterably tragic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unutterably. 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