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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein

Meaning of "unnameable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNNAMEABLE

unnameable  [ʌnˈneɪməbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNNAMEABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unnameable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNNAMEABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unnameable in the English dictionary

The definition of unnameable in the dictionary is that cannot be named or identified.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNNAMEABLE


blamable
ˈbleɪməbəl
blameable
ˈbleɪməbəl
dimmable
ˈdɪməbəl
framable
ˈfreɪməbəl
inestimable
ɪnˈɛstɪməbəl
irreclaimable
ˌɪrɪˈkleɪməbəl
namable
ˈneɪməbəl
nameable
ˈneɪməbəl
reclaimable
rɪˈkleɪməbəl
shamable
ˈʃeɪməbəl
shameable
ˈʃeɪməbəl
swimmable
ˈswɪməbəl
tamable
ˈteɪməbəl
tameable
ˈteɪməbəl
unblamable
ʌnˈbleɪməbəl
unblameable
ʌnˈbleɪməbəl
unnamable
ʌnˈneɪməbəl
unreclaimable
ˌʌnrɪˈkleɪməbəl
untamable
ʌnˈteɪməbəl
untameable
ʌnˈteɪməbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNNAMEABLE

unnail
unnamable
unnamed
unnative
unnatural
unnatural death
unnatural practices
unnaturalise
unnaturalize
unnaturally
unnaturalness
unnavigable
unnavigated
unneath
unnecessarily
unnecessariness
unnecessary
unneeded
unneedful
unneedfully

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNNAMEABLE

able
agreeable
changeable
disagreeable
enforceable
foreseeable
impermeable
interchangeable
knowledgeable
loveable
manageable
moveable
noticeable
permeable
rechargeable
replaceable
saleable
serviceable
sizeable
traceable
useable

Synonyms and antonyms of unnameable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unnameable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNNAMEABLE

Find out the translation of unnameable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unnameable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unnameable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

难以名状
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

innombrable
570 millions of speakers

English

unnameable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unnameable
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

unnameable
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неименуемо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inominável
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অজ্ঞাত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

innommable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak boleh dinamakan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unsagbar
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

unnameable
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

unnameable
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unnameable
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unnameable
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Unnameable
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नालायक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

isimlendirilemez
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

innominabile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nienazywalna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неіменованих
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fără nume
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ακατανόμαστος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onbenoembaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

onämnbara
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unnameable
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unnameable

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNNAMEABLE»

The term «unnameable» is normally little used and occupies the 109.380 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNNAMEABLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unnameable

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2 QUOTES WITH «UNNAMEABLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unnameable.
1
Leonard Bernstein
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
2
Salman Rushdie
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNNAMEABLE»

Discover the use of unnameable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unnameable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Performing the unnameable: an anthology of Australian ...
The texts, together with statements from the creating artists, illustrate, by practical example and theoretical explanation, seventeen different relationships of writing and text to other performing media.
Richard Allen, Karen Pearlman, 1999
2
Fire In the Unnameable Country
“The 1001 Nights of its time – rooms opening into rooms, stories into stories, in the same literary mansion as Calvino, Burroughs, and other metafabulist satirists: horrifying, funny, written in a language all its own.” - Margaret ...
Ghalib Islam, 2014
3
The Unnameable Monster in Literature and Film
A similar approach to the unnameable monster in relation to the negative sublime is evident in Lovecraft's short piece, 'The Thing in the Moonlight', in which an encounter with a formless and unspeakable 'Thing' is accounted for by a ...
Maria Beville, 2013
4
Theoretical Writings
Accordingly, a term in the universe is 'unnameable' if it is the only one in that universe that is not named by any expression. One should be attentive here to the doubling of the unique. A term is named only in so far as it is the unique term that ...
Alain Badiou, Ray Brassier, Alberto Toscano, 2006
5
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
It is important not to confuse Derrida's secret with Badiou's unnameable. There is nothing secret or inaccessible about the unnameable element as such; there is nothing to stop us knowing it or exchanging opinions regarding it (Badiou, ...
Alain Badiou, 2001
6
The Parallax View
In order to approach this topic properly, one would have to focus on the crucial, but often ambiguous,role of the Unnameable in Badiou.To cut a long story short: while,for Badiou, the unnameable Real is the unfathomable external background  ...
Žižek
7
Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of ...
Ultimately, for Caputo, and I think he is right here, the difference between Marion and Derrida on naming the unnameable God is a political difference. Derrida's main concern in the discourse on the name of God is prophetic justice, and is ...
Eugene Thomas Long, 2007
8
Infinite Thought
I call this point the unnameable of the situation. It is what, within the situation, never has a name in the eyes of truth. A term that consequently remains unforceable. This term fixes the limit of the potency of a truth. The unnameable is what is ...
Alain Badiou, Oliver Feltham, Justin Clemens, 2005
9
Conditions
That is why I call it unnameable. Unnameable is to be understood not in terms of the available resources of knowledge but in the precise sense in which it remains out of reach to the veridical anticipations founded on truth. It is not unnameable ...
Alain Badiou, 2008
10
The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without ...
But this, Derrida says, is to be understood not in all its mystical depth but in all of its grammatological platitude: The unnameable is not an ineffable Being which no name could approach: God, for example.6 This unnameable is the play which  ...
John D. Caputo, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNNAMEABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unnameable is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bollywood and Beyond at Indian Film Festival, And Early Japanese …
“Sex and Broadcasting” is a tribute to the eccentric characters that give WFMU its vivid personality, while “Radio Unnameable” profiles legendary WBAI host Bob ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 15»
2
Kelly Slater's Impossible, Unnameable Air: An Explainer
Today in Portugal, Kelly Slater pulled off an aerial maneuver never before completed on a surfboard. The only problem is no one can agree on what to call it. «Deadspin, Oct 14»
3
“How slowly… Love, Sam”: Read Beckett's intriguing postcards to …
... period of his writing life when he was completing Waiting for Godot, and working on all three books of his trilogy Molloy, Malone dies and The Unnameable. «thejournal.ie, Oct 14»
4
Price of naming rights to Saints ballpark an unnameable topic
GLEN STUBBE • gstubbe@startribune.com CHS President Carl Casale unveiled the new name for the St. Paul Saints ballpark during ceremonies in early ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oct 14»
5
The Book Report: Ghalib Islam's 'brilliant career'
Ghalib Islam's debut novel, Fire In The Unnameable Country, is one of the season's most interesting books, an ambitious and complex attempt to grapple with ... «The Globe and Mail, Apr 14»
6
Feel the burn: Ghalib Islam on Fire in the Unnameable Country
Three-quarters of the way through Fire in the Unnameable Country, the wildly inventive, sometimes frustrating debut novel by Ghalib Islam, the narrator's ... «National Post, Mar 14»
7
Fire in the Unnameable Country: No country for old men in this …
“You're either with us or against us,” declared George W. Bush at the start of the War on Terror. Ghalib Islam's debut novel, Fire in the Unnameable Country, ... «The Globe and Mail, Mar 14»
8
Fire in the Unnnameable Country, by Ghalib Islam: Review
448 pp; $30. Hedayat, the narrator of Ghalib Islam's ambitious debut novel Fire in the Unnameable Country, considers himself a glossolalist. The term has a long «National Post, Mar 14»
9
Fire in the Unnameable Country: review
Wood's review ran in 2000, which suggests that Ghalib Islam's debut novel, the high-speed and manically constructed magic carpet ride Fire in the Unnameable ... «Toronto Star, Mar 14»
10
The 10 Best Bookstores In NYC
UNNAMEABLE BOOKS: Once immortalized on an Adrian Tomine New Yorker cover, Unnameable Books became the scrappy David to Amazon's big, bad ... «Gothamist, Nov 13»

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