Unutterable \Un*ut"ter*a*ble\, a.
Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced;
inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable
anguish.
[1913 Webster]
Sighed and looked unutterable things. --Thomson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unutterable
adj 1: too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"
[syn: ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable]
2: 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, unspeakable,
untellable]
3: very difficult to pronounce correctly; "an unpronounceable
foreign word"; "unutterable consonant clusters" [syn: unpronounceable]
WordNet (r) 2.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "unutterable":
arcane, awesome, awful, cabalistic, censored, classified, close,
closed, concealed, cryptic, dark, divine, enigmatic, esoteric,
heavenly, hermetic, hidden, holy, hush-hush, incommunicable,
inconceivable, incredible, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable,
inenarrable, inexpressible, innominable, inviolable, inviolate,
latent, marvelous, mysterious, noncommunicable, numinous, occult,
prodigious, religious, restricted, sacred, sacrosanct, secret,
smothered, spiritual, stifled, suppressed, top secret, ulterior,
unbelievable, unbreatheable, undefinable, under security,
under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged,
unimaginable, unmentionable, unnameable, unrevealable, unrevealed,
unspeakable, unspoken, untellable, untold, untouchable, unuttered,
unwhisperable, venerable, wonderful, wondrous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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