Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inexpressible

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English

Syllables: in-ex-press-ible
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Unable to be expressed; not able to be put into words.

Example Sentences

"She felt inexpressible contempt for her attackers."
"That noise, that awful clamour of uncouthness inexpressible, is the love-call of the storm bird!"
"She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English express Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English expressible English inexpressible From in- + expressible.

Inflected Forms

more inexpressible (comparative) most inexpressible (superlative)

Derived Forms

inexpressibleness inexpressibles inexpressibly

Frequently Paired Words

inexpressibility innumerable innumerous unnumerable incalculable

Synonyms

inexpressable unexpressable unexpressible

Antonyms

expressible

Questions

What does inexpressible mean?: Unable to be expressed; not able to be put into words.
Where does inexpressible come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English express Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English expressible English inexpressible From in- + expressible.

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