Complete Definition of "ineffable"

English

Adjective
en-adj

  1. 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.

  1. forbidden to be uttered; taboo

Translations
Finnish: sanomaton
German: unaussprechlich
Latin: ineffabilis m, f ineffabile n
Portuguese: inefável (1)

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