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Meaning of UNSPEAKABLE

Pronunciation:  un'speekubul

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
  2. [adj]  exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
  3. [adj]  too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"
 
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 Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, bad, dreadful, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inexpressible, painful, sacred, terrible, unexpressible, unnameable, untellable, unutterable
 

 

 

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Unspeakable
Delray Corbett hires Jack Sawyer--a tough rancher with a secret past--to protect his deaf-mute daughter, Anna, and her son from escaped convict Carl Herbold and his brother, Cecil. The Herbolds are bent on revenge against Corbett for having helped put Carl away. Well aware of the grave danger Anna is in, Jack does all he can to ensure her safety, but he falls in love along the way, and struggles to keep his dark past a secret.

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Un*speak"a*ble\, a. [Pref. un- not + speakable.]
Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately
described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as,
unspeakable grief or rage. -- {Un*speak"a*bly}, adv.
      Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. --1
                                               Pet. i. 8.
 
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