as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
an ineffable beauty descends upon the canyon as the sun begins to set
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Recent Examples of ineffable
These dishes have been there for generations, like the ineffable energy that seeps from the walls of this special Bay View nook.
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
What else is there to say in the face of the ineffable?
—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
That ineffable charge continued to feel palpable as the lights went down and a thunderous roar went up.
—Sophie Williams, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
Every man will seek with ineffable ardour the good of all.
—Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
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First, of course, is Nakache’s incredible resilience in the face of the demons of his past, which stem from the greater history of his country.—
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There were some incredible individual seasons across positions like San Francisco RB Christian McCaffrey, Seattle WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Cleveland DE Myles Garrett.—
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As del Toro enters the Oscars’ race with one of his best projects to date, the return of the feature that founded his filmography serves as a kind of toast to the mastery of art, life, and indescribable spaces between.—
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The opportunity to see her mom and each member of her family is indescribable, Joseph said.—
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Assembly Bill 877, by Assemblymember Diane Dixon, R-Newport Beach, would have said the unspeakable out loud — explicitly notifying health insurance companies that residential treatment in California is mostly non-medical and should be billed that way.—
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How Vinyl Records Are Valued Sentiment aside, some rare vinyls have unspeakable financial value and have sold for astronomical prices at auctions.—
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If everything is systematically interlinked, then life’s transcendent beauty is inextricable from its inexpressible horrors and outright silliness, like the jarring swings between slapstick and tragedy in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.—
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Instead, there were chuckles to hold back anger and carefully chosen words to express what felt inexpressible.—
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For all Sacks’ efforts to remain an indefinable cult figure outside the mainstream, he has lately been caught in Hollywood’s tractor beam, with several film scripts in advanced stages of development.—
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This East Coast city earns high marks year after year for its various dining options, museums, and the indefinable, electric energy of the city that never sleeps.—
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Stripped of orchestral arrangement, the emotion in Ross’s voice provokes that unutterable connection that makes singer and listener one in a desire to act in the present for the present.—
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Two high voices — LACO features soprano Amanda Forsythe and countertenor John Holiday — intertwine with the orchestra turning this hymn to the Virgin Mary’s suffering into unutterable sweetness and treating death as life’s engenderment.—
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And nothing is more isolating, more incommunicable, than the grief of a parent who has been unable to save their child’s life.—
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In a way, Tiffany’s rendering of fandom as specific and incommunicable risks undermining her premise, which has to do with the massed power of people online.—
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“Ineffable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffable. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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