unspeakable
adjective/ʌnˈspiːkəbəl/
Frequency rank: #11,553 most common English word
Meaning
too extreme or terrible to be expressed in words.
Example sentence
The survivors struggled to describe the unspeakable horrors they had witnessed during the disaster.
Synonyms & related words
- indescribable
- unimaginable
- horrific
- unutterable
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