inexpressible

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   so strong, unusual, or profound that it cannot adequately be put into words

   The valley at sunrise possessed an inexpressible beauty that left the hikers silent.

Formed from the negative prefix in- + expressible. Expressible derives from express, ultimately Latin exprimere 'to press out, represent, or utter.' The word therefore describes something that cannot be pressed into an adequate verbal form.

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