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Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.
Peter Lombard

Meaning of "unutterable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNUTTERABLE

unutterable  [ʌnˈʌtərəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNUTTERABLE

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

WHAT DOES UNUTTERABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unutterable in the English dictionary

The definition of unutterable in the dictionary is incapable of being expressed in words.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNUTTERABLE


alterable
ˈɔːltərəbəl
comparable
ˈkɒmpərəbəl
considerable
kənˈsɪdərəbəl
desirable
dɪˈzaɪərəbəl
durable
ˈdjʊərəbəl
filterable
ˈfɪltərəbəl
flatterable
ˈflætərəbəl
inalterable
ɪnˈɔːltərəbəl
inutterable
ɪnˈʌtərəbəl
memorable
ˈmɛmərəbəl
motorable
ˈməʊtərəbəl
nonfilterable
ˌnɒnˈfɪltərəbəl
registerable
ˈrɛdʒɪstərəbəl
scatterable
ˈskætərəbəl
slaughterable
ˈslɔːtərəbəl
unalterable
ʌnˈɔːltərəbəl
unbetterable
ʌnˈbɛtərəbəl
unfilterable
ʌnˈfɪltərəbəl
unsplinterable
ʌnˈsplɪntərəbəl
utterable
ˈʌtərəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNUTTERABLE

ununbium
ununited
unununium
unuplifted
unurged
unusable
unusably
unused
unuseful
unusefully
unusefulness
unushered
unusual
unusually
unusualness
unutilised
unutilized
unutterableness
unutterably
unuttered

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNUTTERABLE

able
admirable
adorable
favourable
honorable
honourable
incomparable
incurable
inseparable
measurable
miserable
parable
pleasurable
preferable
recoverable
tolerable
transferable
unbearable
undesirable
venerable
wearable

Synonyms and antonyms of unutterable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNUTTERABLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unutterable» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unutterable

Translation of «unutterable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNUTTERABLE

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

Translator English - Chinese

难言
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

indecible
570 millions of speakers

English

unutterable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनिर्वचनीय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لا يوصف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

невыразимая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indizível
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অকথ্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indicible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak boleh disebut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unaussprechlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

言いようのない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

말로 표현할 수없는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unutterable
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không thể tả được
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

unutterable
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

न सोडणारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tarifsiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inesprimibile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niewysłowiona
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невимовна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de nedescris
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απερίγραφτα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongenaakbare
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

unutterable
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uendelig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unutterable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNUTTERABLE»

The term «unutterable» is regularly used and occupies the 77.781 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNUTTERABLE» OVER TIME

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

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4 QUOTES WITH «UNUTTERABLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unutterable.
1
Rene Daumal
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
2
Peter Lombard
Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.
3
Jean Paul
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
4
Timothy Radcliffe
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNUTTERABLE»

Discover the use of unutterable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unutterable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the ...
Providing a snapshot of black-white relations for every decade of the twentieth century, this compellingly written story highlights the ways indigenous development in Macon combined with other statewide, regional, and national factors to ...
Andrew Michael Manis, 2004
2
Unutterable Blunders and Palace Disasters
A twenty-first century trickster, Ken Jones, in "Unutterable Blunders and Palace Disasters," makes music from the rubbish left after our rebellions against culture and epistemology.
Ken Jones, 2006
3
The Unutterable Beauty: The Collected Poems of G a ...
Poems by the First World War Army Chaplain nicknamed 'Woodbine Willy' for his habit of handing out Woodbine cigarettes to the men in the trenches.
G. A. Studdert-kennedy, 2006
4
Unutterable Love: The Passionate Life and Preaching of F. W. ...
Drawing on a range of previously unpublished manuscripts, this is a new and comprehensive biography of the 19th century Anglican preacher.
Christina Beardsley, 2009
5
The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy of Hwa Yen ...
Oh, unutterable are the manners they enter the hair . . . Unutterable is the vastness of the Realm . . . Unutterable is the purity of Buddha's body, Unutterable is the purity of Buddha's knowledge. Unutterable is the experience of eliminating all ...
Garma C C Chang, 2013
6
Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society
But in this postponement, in this absence of unutterability,30 lies the relevance of the unutterable paradox. Luhmann has endowed the latter with an almost life- giving quality, which is affirmed in a gesture of withdrawal, in running backwards  ...
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, 2009
7
The Supernatural Occurrences Of Charles G. Finney
No words can express the wonderful love that was shed abroad in my heart.209 I wept aloud with joy and love; and I do not know but I should say, I literally bellowed out the unutterable gushings of my heart.210 These waves came over me, ...
Daniel R. Jennings, 2009
8
Christian Discourses: And, The Crisis and a Crisis in the ...
He dupes the listener; he calls the joy unutterable, and then a new surprise, a truly surprising surprise — he utters it. Suppose that the unutterable joy is based upon the contradiction that an existing human being is composed of the infinite and ...
Søren Kierkegaard, Robert L. Perkins, 2007
9
Musical Aesthetics: The nineteenth century
... related to it the activity in which it — completely calmed — is still to utter only just what in its nature it uniquely can utter, — we have to characterize this orchestral capacity of speech clearly in that it is the capacity of disclosing the unutterable.
Edward A. Lippman, 1986
10
Kierkegaard's Writings, XII: Concluding Unscientific ...
In that case, the predicate “unutterable” becomes just a rhetorical predicate, a strong expression, and the like. The explaining jack-of-all-trades has everything in readiness before the beginning of the performance, and now it begins. He dupes ...
Søren Kierkegaard, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNUTTERABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unutterable is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Change of Attitude
Desperate to prevent negative reactions by an increasingly alarmed and armed public our leaders either ignore, or strive to put the unutterable in a less ugly ... «Fetchyournews.com, Jul 15»
2
Barack Obama exercises his privilege by uttering the unutterable 'N …
Obama was exercising a kind of privilege when he uttered the unutterable word. It is not, incidentally, a privilege based on race. Ben Carson, one suspects, ... «Examiner.com, Jun 15»
3
The most basic language, dance, brings out the unutterable
The most basic language, dance, brings out the unutterable. Starting to connect. Renfrew Center. Patients in dance therapy at the Renfrew Center of Florida start ... «Chicago Tribune, May 15»
4
Amy, Cannes film review: Brilliant, unutterably sad film depicts the …
There is an unutterable sadness at the heart of Asif Kapadia's brilliant new film about Amy Winehouse, the singer who died from alcohol poisoning in 2011 aged ... «The Independent, May 15»
5
The Unutterable Indecency of Dhimmitude
In “The Hobby Lobby Moment,” an excellent article in the latest Harvard Law Review, Paul Horwitz analyses the Supreme Court decision not so much in terms of ... «First Things, Jan 15»
6
National Post editorial board: 'The Interview' debacle offers a chance …
or banishing a professor who crosses the invisible, arbitrary, ever-shifting line between controversial beliefs and unutterable ones. At far too many universities, ... «National Post, Dec 14»
7
'The Laughing Monsters,' by Denis Johnson
Honor is elusive and many find the copious ingestion of drugs necessary. Our ignorance is infinite and our sorrows fearful. We have made an unutterable waste ... «New York Times, Nov 14»
8
From Farage to Freud: How the Cultural Marxists Are Murdering Our …
Umunna has his faults but unutterable stupidity is not one of them. Suppose, I put it to him, that he had heard someone in the pub after a rugger match boasting ... «Breitbart News, Oct 14»
9
Northern Lights: Vintage Color Photos of Nature's Great Light Show
... like searchlight beams, sometimes diffused in shimmering veils and curtains, sometimes dancing and pulsating like the flames of some unutterable cosmic fire. «TIME, Oct 14»
10
Unutterable expressions familiar to all humans
Artist and researcher C.M. Kösemen discusses the odd, human-animal mixture of creatures and fairies living in the subconscious world, and questions ... «Daily Sabah, Sep 14»

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