English
Adjective
en-adj
- unspeakable, beyond expression in words
#:Gay Watson, Stephen Batchelor, Guy Claxton, The Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, science, and our day-to-day lives (2000) p. 100:
#::As Alan Watts (1961) wrote, it involves trying to speak the unspeakable, scrute the inscrutable and eff the ineffable.
- forbidden to be uttered; taboo
Translations
Finnish: sanomaton
German: unaussprechlich
Latin: ineffabilis m, f ineffabile n
Portuguese: inefável (1)
fr:ineffable
io:ineffable
hu:ineffable
ro:ineffable
te:ineffable
vi:ineffable
zh:ineffable
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