indescribably

indescribably

English

Etymology

indescribable +‎ -ly

Adverb

indescribably (comparative more indescribably, superlative most indescribably)

1. In an indescribable manner.
   • 1879, John McElroy, Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, ch. 24,

     The appearance of the dead was indescribably ghastly.

   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:

     There was something indescribably nerve-shaking and menacing in that constant mutter, which seemed to shape itself into the very syllables of the half-breed, endlessly repeated, "We will kill you if we can."

Translations

in an indescribable manner

Bulgarian: неопису́емо (bg) (neopisúemo) Czech: nepopsatelně Dutch: onbeschrijflijk (nl) Esperanto: nepriskribeble Finnish: kuvaamattomasti, sanoin kuvaamattomasti French: indescriptiblement (fr), inexprimablement (fr) Georgian: აუწერლად (auc̣erlad) German: unbeschreiblich (de) Greek: απερίγραπτα (el) (aperígrapta) Hungarian: leírhatatlanul Italian: indescrivibilmente (it) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: neravebarkî (ku) Norwegian: Bokmål: ubeskrivelig Nynorsk: ubeskriveleg Polish: nieopisanie (pl) Russian: неопису́емо (ru) (neopisújemo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: неопѝсиво Roman: neopìsivo (sh) Spanish: indescriptiblemente Swedish: obeskrivligt (sv)