unexpressible

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ expressible.

Adjective

unexpressible (comparative more unexpressible, superlative most unexpressible)

  1. Impossible to express.
    • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons
      What unexpressible comfort does overflow the pious and devout Toul from the remembrance of a holy and well - spent life and a conscience of its own innocency and integrity!
    • 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “How John Look’d Over His Attorney’s Bill”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], OCLC 1083345579, page 20:
      When John firſt brought out the Bills, the Surprize of all the Family was unexpreſſible, at the prodigious Dimenſions of them; […]

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unexpressible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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