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ineffable

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9 lettersPronunciation /ɪˈnɛf.ə.bəl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted abeeffilnStarts with IEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. defying expression or description

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French ineffable, a learned borrowing from Latin ineffābilis, from in- + effābilis.

Used in a sentence

  • Devotion bids aspire to nobler things, to boundless love, and joys ineffable: and such her expectation from kind Heav'n.
  • Stroeve was trying to express a feeling which he had never known before, and he did not know how to put it into common terms. He was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable.
  • They, and many others, are one with the trains that ran them, part of that ineffable atmosphere of Scotland's railways.

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