unutterable
Plural: unutterables
Adjective Satellite
- too sacred to be uttered
- defying expression or description
- "unutterable contempt"
- very difficult to pronounce correctly
- "unutterable consonant clusters"
Adj
- Not utterable; incapable of being physically spoken or voiced; unpronounceable.
- Incapable of being articulated or expressed; indescribable, inexpressible.
- Not allowed to be spoken; taboo, unspeakable.
- Extremely bad or objectionable; unspeakable.
Noun
- Something which is unutterable (incapable of being physically spoken, incapable of being articulated or expressed, etc.).
Examples
- unutterable anguish
Origin / Etymology
From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + utterable.
Synonyms
indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, unnameable, unpronounceable, unspeakable, untellable, abysmal, awful, chronic, coarse, crap, crummy, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dreadful, foul, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrid, inadequate, incompetent, indicible, inelegant, inenarrable, inexpressible, inferior, intolerable, inutterable, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, nameless, negative, odious, pathetic, peak, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, sloppy, termless, terrible, undefinable, undescribable, unfavorable, unsayable, unspecifiable, untold, unutterable, utterless
Antonyms
articulable, awful, bad, detestable, disagreeable, dreadful, enunciable, expressible, indescribable, pronounceable, sayable, speakable, unsatisfactory, utterable
Scrabble Score: 13
unutterable: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordunutterable: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
unutterable: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary