unspeakable
IPA: ʌnspˈikʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Incapable of being spoken or uttered
- Impossible to speak about.
- Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
- Extremely bad or objectionable.
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Examples of "unspeakable" in Sentences
- Being able to speak the unspeakable is very powerful.
- This is the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church where religious leaders say the shooting was devastating, but they also say it brought what they call unspeakable amounts of love afterwards.
- After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of erotic risk and imaginative daring, ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweetbut very "American" triumph.
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