unspeakable
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
unspeakable
adj 1: defying expression or description; "indefinable
yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy";
"inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness";
"unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
[syn: {indefinable}, {indescribable}, {ineffable},
{unspeakable}, {untellable}, {unutterable}]
2: exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste";
"abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful
manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting";
"an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [syn:
{atrocious}, {abominable}, {awful}, {dreadful}, {painful},
{terrible}, {unspeakable}]
3: too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"
[syn: {ineffable}, {unnameable}, {unspeakable},
{unutterable}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Unspeakable \Un*speak"a*ble\, a. [Pref. un- not + speakable.]
Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately
described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as,
unspeakable grief or rage. -- {Un*speak"a*bly}, adv.
[1913 Webster]
Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. --1
Pet. i. 8.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "unspeakable":
abominable, abusive, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awesome, awful,
backhand, backhanded, bad, baneful, base, beastly, black, blamable,
blameworthy, calumnious, contumelious, criminal, damnable, dark,
degrading, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, distasteful,
divine, dreadful, evil, exceptional, execrable, extraordinary,
fabulous, flagitious, flagrant, foul, grim, hateful, heavenly,
heinous, hideous, holy, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
horrifying, humiliating, improper, incommunicable, indefinable,
indescribable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, infamous,
iniquitous, innominable, insolent, insulting, inviolable,
inviolate, knavish, left-handed, legendary, loathsome, low,
marvelous, monstrous, mythical, naughty, nefarious,
noncommunicable, noteworthy, numinous, obnoxious, odious,
offensive, outrageous, peccant, phenomenal, portentous, prodigious,
rank, religious, remarkable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate,
repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sacred, sacrosanct,
scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, shameful, shocking, sinful,
spiritual, stupefying, stupendous, terrible, tragic, undefinable,
unexampled, unforgivable, unmentionable, unnameable, unparalleled,
unpardonable, unprecedented, untellable, untouchable, unutterable,
unwhisperable, unworthy, venerable, vicious, vile, villainous,
wicked, wonderful, wrong
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