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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. defying expression or description;
- Example: "indefinable yearnings"
- Example: "indescribable beauty"
- Example: "ineffable ecstasy"
- Example: "inexpressible anguish"
- Example: "unspeakable happiness"
- Example: "unutterable contempt"
- Example: "a thing of untellable splendor"
[syn: indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable]

2. too sacred to be uttered;
- Example: "the ineffable name of the Deity"
[syn: ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ineffable \In*ef"fa*ble\, a. [L. ineffabilis: cf. F. ineffable. See In- not, and Effable, Fame.] Incapable of being expressed in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven. [1913 Webster] Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contentment over the soul. --Beattie. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ineffable 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: too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity" [syn: ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

53 Moby Thesaurus words for "ineffable": abstract, awesome, awful, celestial, divine, empyreal, empyrean, ethereal, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, heavenly, holy, ideal, incommunicable, indefinable, indescribable, inenarrable, inexpressible, innominable, inviolable, inviolate, legendary, marvelous, mythical, noncommunicable, noteworthy, numinous, phenomenal, portentous, prodigious, religious, remarkable, sacred, sacrosanct, spiritual, stupefying, stupendous, transcendent, transcendental, undefinable, unexampled, unmentionable, unnameable, unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, untellable, untouchable, unutterable, unwhisperable, venerable, wonderful