Unutterable
adjective
Unable to be expressed or described in words because of its deepness or greatness.
The soldier returned home with an unutterable sadness after the war.
Often appears as...
- unutterable joy
- unutterable sorrow
adjective
Unable to be expressed or described in words because of its deepness or greatness.
The soldier returned home with an unutterable sadness after the war.
Often appears as...
- unutterable joy
- unutterable sorrow
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Used to emphasize the intensity of an emotion that's beyond words.
Her eyes conveyed unutterable love when she saw her child.
Pro Tip 2/3Great Impact
Often follows events with life-changing or profound impact.
He felt unutterable despair upon losing his lifelong home to the fire.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Hyperbole
Use when an experience truly can't be captured with words, not just for minor feelings.
Witnessing the birth of the universe would be an unutterable spectacle.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Used to emphasize the intensity of an emotion that's beyond words.
Her eyes conveyed unutterable love when she saw her child.
Pro Tip 2/3Great Impact
Often follows events with life-changing or profound impact.
He felt unutterable despair upon losing his lifelong home to the fire.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Hyperbole
Use when an experience truly can't be captured with words, not just for minor feelings.
Witnessing the birth of the universe would be an unutterable spectacle.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Used to emphasize the intensity of an emotion that's beyond words.
Her eyes conveyed unutterable love when she saw her child.
Pro Tip 2/3Great Impact
Often follows events with life-changing or profound impact.
He felt unutterable despair upon losing his lifelong home to the fire.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Hyperbole
Use when an experience truly can't be captured with words, not just for minor feelings.
Witnessing the birth of the universe would be an unutterable spectacle.
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Quote examples
Peter Lombard
French Theologian
Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.
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Rene Daumal
French Writer
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
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Timothy Radcliffe
English Clergyman
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
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Jean Paul
German Author
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
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Peter Lombard
French Theologian
Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.
Quote examples
Rene Daumal
French Writer
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
Quote examples
Timothy Radcliffe
English Clergyman
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
Quote examples
Jean Paul
German Author
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
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