ineffable

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1. ineffable - Adjective

2. ineffable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven.

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when we gaze in unbounded admiration on that ineffable mercy of His, which with unwearied patience endures countless sins which are every moment being committed under His very eyes, or the call with which from no antecedent merits of ours, but by the free grace of His pity He receives us. John Cassian

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. Elbert Hubbard

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. Douglas Adams

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful, it is marvelously ineffable. Vanna Bonta

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable. Paul Karl Feyerabend

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. Alexis Carrel

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