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ineffable

[in-ef-uh-buhl] / ɪnˈɛf ə bəl /


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"We are grateful for her passion, her wit, her ineffable style, and all the summers she spent in the tent."

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

Its first was led, as if filled with some ineffable perfume, by Mira Nadon alongside Peter Walker, who deftly attended his counterpart.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

This trend is often blamed on an ineffable consumer preference, or Americans’ being fat, but that isn’t exactly true.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

For your giftee are foodstuffs, home goods, clothes, paraphernalia and tchotchkes that are small in stature but imbued with the ineffable swagger.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

But far more intense was the utter, ineffable tenderness he felt, and the solemnity.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor