inexpressible

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Olga, another mourner who taught the younger daughter to draw, said both sisters were talented and outgoing, and described their death as an "inexpressible pain".

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

“Happy Place” is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2023

This includes what can be expressed and what is inexpressible, what leaders should or should not tell people and the whole inexplicable issue of worthiness and sacrifice for common good.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2020

And we were all sustained there with a savour inexpressible which satisfied us.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt