unspeakable meaning and definition

UNSPEAKABLE adjective

Definition of unspeakable (adjective)

1. defying expression or description
   • "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
   • synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, untellable, unutterable
2. exceptionally bad or displeasing
   • "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
   • synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible
3. too sacred to be uttered
   • "the ineffable name of the Deity"
   • synonyms: ineffable, unnameable, unutterable