unutterably
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an unutterable manner; inexpressibly; so bad or otherwise extreme that one cannot talk about it.
Example Sentences
- "We both of us went on our knees, and, feeling unutterably sad, a whispered prayer went up from our lips as the poor fellow's soul flitted away to a happier and brighter world, and all was over."
- "I turned away and left her to finish her journey in peace, feeling, but only for a moment or two, that I had been an unutterably mean hound."
- "The rapid reconquest of the capital, Kabul, by the Taliban after two decades of a staggeringly expensive, bloody effort to establish a secular government with functioning security forces in Afghanistan is, above all, unutterably tragic."
Etymology
Etymology tree English unutterable Middle English -ly English -ly English unutterably From unutterable + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more unutterably (comparative)
most unutterably (superlative)