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indescribable
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in·de·scrib·a·ble  (nd-skrb-bl)
adj.
1. Impossible to describe: indescribable views.
2. Exceeding description: experienced indescribable delight. See Synonyms at unspeakable.
inde·scriba·bili·ty, inde·scriba·ble·ness n.
inde·scriba·bly adv.
indescribable [ˌɪndɪˈskraɪbəbəl]
adj
beyond description; too intense, extreme, etc., for words
indescribability , indescribableness n
indescribably  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.indescribableindescribable - defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
ineffable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable, indefinable
inexpressible, unexpressible - defying expression
indescribable
adjective unutterable, indefinable, beyond words, ineffable, inexpressible, beyond description, incommunicable, beggaring description The stench from the sewer is indescribable.
Translations
indescribable [ˌɪndɪsˈkraɪbəbl] ADJ [terror, horror] → indescriptible, increíble; [beauty, joy] → indescriptible
indescribable [ˌɪndɪˈskraɪbəbəl] adj → indescriptible
indescribable
adj → unbeschreiblich; (inf: = terrible) → fürchterlich, schrecklich
indescribable [ˌɪndɪsˈkraɪbəbl] adj → indescrivibile
indescribable [ˌɪndɪsˈkraɪbəbl] adj → indescrivibile


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My current writerly projects seek to make sense out of--bring a new sort of order to, in the reflective realm of a writer's imagination--the time of "skin, skin, and hot blood" (Morrison's description in Beloved of the indescribability of lynching) while making connections between those traumatic historical realities and the sexualized, sometimes racialized realities inevitably present in torture and often obscenely visible under repressive political regimes.
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