Definizione monolingua

unspeakable

unspeakable (comparative more unspeakable, superlative most unspeakable)

1. Incapable of being spoken or uttered; unutterable; ineffable; inexpressible.
   • 1855-1882, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, book xv,

     The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows.

2. Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
   • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, ch. 3,

     The miser will remember his hoard of gold, the robber his ill-gotten wealth, the angry and revengeful and merciless murderers their deeds of blood and violence in which they revelled, the impure and adulterous the unspeakable and filthy pleasures in which they delighted.

3. Extremely bad or objectionable.

   an unspeakable fool

   an unspeakable play

   • 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider,

     Yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape; and in its mouldy, disintegrating apparel an unspeakable quality that chilled me even more.

Definizione dizionario unspeakable

	ineffabile
	That cannot be expressed or described with words.

	inenarrabile
	That cannot be expressed or described with words.

	inesprimibile
	That cannot be expressed or described with words.

indescrivibile

indicibile

Altri significati:

Incapable of being spoken or uttered; unutterable; ineffable; inexpressible.

incapable of being spoken or uttered

Extremely bad or objectionable.

That should not be spoken.

Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.