unutterable
IPA: ʌnjˈutɝʌbʌɫ
noun
- Something which is unutterable (incapable of being physically spoken, incapable of being articulated or expressed, etc.).
adjective
- Not utterable; incapable of being physically spoken or voiced; unpronounceable.
- Incapable of being articulated or expressed; indescribable, inexpressible.
- Not allowed to be spoken; taboo, unspeakable.
- (figuratively) Extremely bad or objectionable; unspeakable.
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Examples of "unutterable" in Sentences
- Gone, – past – buried in unutterable scorn, – are the days in which I appealed, either to him, or from him.
- In his attempt to register the extent of his "unutterable" bliss at buying his freedom, Equiano offers a list of comparable moments of joy:
- The third name is the name unutterable which means the All. Talks with Brother V. strengthen, refresh, and support me in the path of virtue.
- Elohim, etc., and still less Yahweh, the ineffable name, i.e. a name unutterable to any human tongue; instead of these, they used metaphors or expressions having reference to the Divine attributes.
- "Unspeakable" in the dictionary means the same as "unutterable" -- but the former is always used to mean something base or vile, while the latter usually means some rapturous or divine thought or emotion.
- In such a project the spiritual element of understanding, i.e., the grasp of the relations between the points on this mental map and the external world was relegated to the margin as simply "unutterable".
- SBG: the word "unutterable" also occurs in heel's phenomenology of spirit, page 66: "what is called the unutterable is nothing else than the untrue, the irrational, what is merely meant [but is not actually expressed].
- When is anyone in authority going to utter the unutterable, which is that our financial collapse ultimately goes back to the fact that every dollar in circulation derives from a loan made by a bank to a producer, consumer, or the government, and that all these loans have attached to them a rental charge known as interest which is paid to the bankers 'monopoly?
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