adjective
definition
Unable to be expressed; not able to be put into words.
example
She felt inexpressible contempt for her attackers.
Examples of inexpressible in a Sentence
What an inexpressible joy it will be to read about Achilles, and Ulysses, and Andromache and Athene, and the rest of my old friends in their own glorious language!
Who has not sometimes derived an inexpressible satisfaction from his food in which appetite had no share?
Our deepest encounter with God is sometimes almost ineffable, almost inexpressible.
Browne holds that not only God's essence, but his attributes are inexpressible by our ideas, and can only be conceived analogically.
This ravished the heart of David with an inexpressible affection.
His sister-in-law and her whole family, who came to live with him on his return from Rome, perished shortly afterwards of the plague; and on the 2nd of April 1634 died, to the inexpressible grief of her father, his eldest and bestbeloved daughter, a nun in the convent of San Matteo at Arcetri.
Sometimes I saw him at his work in the woods, felling trees, and he would greet me with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well.
I felt proud to know that the liberties of Massachusetts and of our fatherland were in such safe keeping; and as I turned to my hoeing again I was filled with an inexpressible confidence, and pursued my labor cheerfully with a calm trust in the future.
The difference after a little experience is not difficult to detect, though inexpressible in words.
The tender, half-broken tones in which these words were said, the inexpressible pathos of his voice and manner, were never forgotten by those who heard that Wednesday morning speech.
Similarly we cannot subtract 8 from 15, if 15 means 1 ten + 5 ones; we must either write 15-815-8=(10+5)-8= (I o - 8)+5 = 2+5 = 7, or else resolve the 15 into an inexpressible number of ones, and then subtract 8 of them, leaving 7.
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy.
His only son died, to Cobden's inexpressible grief, at the age of fifteen, in 1856.