ineffable

ineffable
I adjective amazing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, beyond expression, fearful, great, impossible to describe, impossible to express, incommunicable, inconceivable, incredibilis, indefinable, indescribable, inexpressible, infandus, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, nameless, overwhelming, sacred, staggering, strange, unable to be expressed, unable to be spoken, undefinable, unheard, unimaginable, unmentionable, unnamable, unpronounceable, unspeakable, untranslatable, unutterable II index mysterious, sacrosanct, undefinable

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  • INEFFABLE — «Ce dont on ne peut parler, soutenait Wittgenstein, il faut le taire»; car l’inexprimable, le mystique, se montre et ne se dit pas. Un indicible dont il n’y aurait ni ostension ni expression ne serait pas seulement ineffable, il serait inexistant …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Ineffable — In*ef fa*ble, a. [L. ineffabilis: cf. F. ineffable. See {In } not, and {Effable}, {Fame}.] Incapable of being expressed in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven. [1913 Webster] Contentment with our lot …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • ineffable — INEFFABLE. adj. de tout genre. Que les hommes ne peuvent exprimer par aucunes paroles. Il se dit de Dieu, de ses attributs, & des mysteres de la Religion. La grandeur ineffable de Dieu. son nom ineffable. le mystere ineffable de l Incarnation …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • ineffable — [in ef′ə bəl] adj. [ME < MFr < L ineffabilis < in , not + effabilis, utterable < effari, to speak out < ex , out + fari, to speak: see FAME] 1. too overwhelming to be expressed or described in words; inexpressible [ineffable… …   English World dictionary

  • ineffable — (adj.) late 14c., from O.Fr. ineffable (14c.) or directly from L. ineffabilis unutterable, from in not, opposite of (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + effabilis speakable, from effari utter, from ex out (see EX (Cf …   Etymology dictionary

  • ineffable — *unutterable, inexpressible, unspeakable, indescribable, indefinable Analogous words: *celestial, heavenly, empyrean, empyreal: ethereal (see AIRY): spiritual, divine, *holy, sacred: transcendent, transcendental, ideal, *abstract Contrasted words …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • ineffable — [adj] too great for words beyond words, celestial, divine, empyreal, empyrean, ethereal, heavenly, holy, ideal, impossible, incommunicable, incredible, indefinable, indescribable, inexpressible, nameless, sacred, spiritual, too sacred for words* …   New thesaurus

  • ineffable — Ineffable, Ineffabilis …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • ineffable — ► ADJECTIVE 1) too great or extreme to be expressed in words. 2) too sacred to be uttered. DERIVATIVES ineffability noun ineffably adverb ORIGIN Latin ineffabilis, from in not + effari utter …   English terms dictionary

  • ineffable — (i nè fa bl ) adj. 1°   Qui ne peut être exprimé par des paroles. •   Tressaillir d une joie ineffable et pleine de gloire, SACI Bible, St Pierre, 1re ép. I, 8. •   Pendant que le pauvre à ta table Goûtera de la paix la douceur ineffable, RAC.… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

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