unspeakably
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an unspeakable manner.
Example Sentences
- "My point is that we shouldn't be too hard on the Star, the unspeakably vile supermarket tabloid that has been trying to dirty up Governor Bill Clinton."
- ""The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency."
- "Last July, a federal appeals court said that Tsarnaev will remain in prison for the rest of his life for “unspeakably brutal acts,” but that he should be given a new penalty-phase trial, citing jury selection issues and a failure to properly screen jurors for bias."
Etymology
Etymology tree English unspeakable Middle English -ly English -ly English unspeakably From unspeakable + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more unspeakably (comparative)
most unspeakably (superlative)