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inexpressible

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[ UK /ˌɪnɛkspɹˈɛsəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. defying expression

How To Use inexpressible In A Sentence

  • It is this potential for music to express contradictory, sometimes inexpressible emotions that drives Ward to write songs.
  • And this impression is greatly helped by the fantastical finery of his dress: sky-blue satin cravat, yards of gold chain, white French gloves, light drab great-coat lined with velvet of the same colour, invisible inexpressibles, skin-coloured and fitting like a glove, etc., etc. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • On the day of the wedding, I remember dressing in that pink dress with inexpressible joy, for it was the moment I had been waiting for since the seamstress had first measured me for my clothing.
  • The epilogue catches perfectly the endless withdrawing melancholy of summer evenings in the high north, when pleasure goes on so long it turns into an inexpressible sadness.
  • It filled his soul again with inexpressible joy and pleasure, as if everything else seemed dark by comparison with that infinite brilliance and radiant light-for it was night.
  • He attributes the decline of literary style in great part to the poetry of World War I, which tried to describe inexpressible horrors as bluntly and simply as possible.
  • When sound and music are rendered, something previously inexpressible can be revealed, and the concert hall can become a site to engage our desires and fantasy lives.
  • What is inexpressible in words may seem even further removed from any kind of visualization.
  • His face seemed simply to be expanding with inexpressible rage, but then he began to change.
  • 'Have you never observed through my inexpressibles a large prominency circa genitalia?' he inquired with exquisite delicacy of a colleague. Archive 2004-03-01
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