Search Result for "unutterable":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. too sacred to be uttered;
- Example: "the ineffable name of the Deity"
[syn: ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable]
2. 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]
3. very difficult to pronounce correctly;
- Example: "an unpronounceable foreign word"
- Example: "unutterable consonant clusters"
[syn: unpronounceable, unutterable]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unutterable \Un*ut"ter*a*ble\, a. Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. [1913 Webster] Sighed and looked unutterable things. --Thomson. [1913 Webster] -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "unutterable": arcane, awesome, awful, cabalistic, censored, classified, close, closed, concealed, cryptic, dark, divine, enigmatic, esoteric, heavenly, hermetic, hidden, holy, hush-hush, incommunicable, inconceivable, incredible, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, innominable, inviolable, inviolate, latent, marvelous, mysterious, noncommunicable, numinous, occult, prodigious, religious, restricted, sacred, sacrosanct, secret, smothered, spiritual, stifled, suppressed, top secret, ulterior, unbelievable, unbreatheable, undefinable, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unimaginable, unmentionable, unnameable, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspeakable, unspoken, untellable, untold, untouchable, unuttered, unwhisperable, venerable, wonderful, wondrous
