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INEXPRESSIBLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Defying expression
Synonyms:
inexpressible; unexpressible
Classified under:
Similar:
indefinable; indescribable; ineffable; unspeakable; untellable; unutterable (defying expression or description)
Antonym:
expressible (capable of being expressed)
Context examples:
She gave no sign that she had heard, though the expression of her eyes changed to one of inexpressible loathing as she started to turn away.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I felt an inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security, when I knew that there was a stranger in the room, an individual not belonging to Gateshead, and not related to Mrs. Reed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Having given some further directions, and intimates that he should call again the next day, he departed; to my grief: I felt so sheltered and befriended while he sat in the chair near my pillow; and as he closed the door after him, all the room darkened and my heart again sank: inexpressible sadness weighed it down.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When he had done, instead of feeling better, calmer, more enlightened by his discourse, I experienced an inexpressible sadness; for it seemed to me—I know not whether equally so to others—that the eloquence to which I had been listening had sprung from a depth where lay turbid dregs of disappointment—where moved troubling impulses of insatiate yearnings and disquieting aspirations.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
