Meaning of INEFFABLE
| Pronunciation: | | in'efubul
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- [adj] defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
- [adj] too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"
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| | Synonyms: | | indefinable, indescribable, inexpressible, sacred, unexpressible, unnameable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
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| | Definition: | | \In*ef"fa*ble\, a. [L. ineffabilis: cf. F. ineffable.
See {In-} not, and {Effable}, {Fame}.]
Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable;
unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven.
Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable
contentment over the soul. --Beattie.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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