UNSPEAKABLE


Meaning of UNSPEAKABLE in English

|ən+ adjective

Etymology: Middle English unspekeable, from un- (I) + speken to speak + -able

1.

a. : not capable of being verbally expressed : unutterable , indescribable

watching the unspeakable beauties of that wondrous bay — Martha Kean

with unspeakable delight … took and divided the gifts — Francis Parkman

all creative work starts as a feeling … or some other unspeakable affective state — A.H.S.Korzybski

b. : indescribably objectionable or hateful

that unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room, wave upon wave of the breath of all corruption — Arthur Grimble

so likable as a man, so unspeakable as a politician — Francis Biddle

those poor painted females … plied their unspeakable trade — D.B.Chidsey

2. : that may not or cannot be uttered or spoken

oddest of all are the bawdy thoughts that come into one's head — the unspeakable words — L.P.Smith

our job to see that a speaker does not have to contend with unspeakable collections of consonants — Rosemary Jellis

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.