Unspeakable \Unspeakable\
See speakable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Unspeakable \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. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unspeakable
adj 1: defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings";
"indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy";
"inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness";
"unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable
splendor" [syn: indefinable, indescribable, ineffable,
untellable, unutterable]
2: 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" [syn: atrocious,
abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible]
3: too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"
[syn: ineffable, unnameable, unutterable]
WordNet (r) 2.0
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "unspeakable":
abominable, abusive, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awesome, awful,
backhand, backhanded, bad, baneful, base, beastly, black, blamable,
blameworthy, calumnious, contumelious, criminal, damnable, dark,
degrading, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, distasteful,
divine, dreadful, evil, exceptional, execrable, extraordinary,
fabulous, flagitious, flagrant, foul, grim, hateful, heavenly,
heinous, hideous, holy, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
horrifying, humiliating, improper, incommunicable, indefinable,
indescribable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, infamous,
iniquitous, innominable, insolent, insulting, inviolable,
inviolate, knavish, left-handed, legendary, loathsome, low,
marvelous, monstrous, mythical, naughty, nefarious,
noncommunicable, noteworthy, numinous, obnoxious, odious,
offensive, outrageous, peccant, phenomenal, portentous, prodigious,
rank, religious, remarkable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate,
repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sacred, sacrosanct,
scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, shameful, shocking, sinful,
spiritual, stupefying, stupendous, terrible, tragic, undefinable,
unexampled, unforgivable, unmentionable, unnameable, unparalleled,
unpardonable, unprecedented, untellable, untouchable, unutterable,
unwhisperable, unworthy, venerable, vicious, vile, villainous,
wicked, wonderful, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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