unspeakable
/ənspˈikəbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Impossible to speak about.
adj
adj
That cannot be referenced in source code, due to having no usable name.
Example Sentences
- "1855-1882, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, book xv, The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows."
- "It is true that during the first week hardly a day passed that Erskine did not address himself to Watt, on the subject of Watt's duties. But in the first week Watt's words had not yet begun to fail him, or Watt's world to become unspeakable."
- "The miser will remember his hoard of gold, the robber his ill-gotten wealth, the angry and revengeful and merciless murderers their deeds of blood and violence in which they revelled, the impure and adulterous the unspeakable and filthy pleasures in which they delighted."
- "an unspeakable fool"
- "an unspeakable play"
- "Yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape; and in its mouldy, disintegrating apparel an unspeakable quality that chilled me even more."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: unspekable