Synonyms for unspeakable
ʌnˈspi kə bəlun·speak·able

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1. indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterableadjective

   defying expression or description

   "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"

   Synonyms:
   unnameable, atrocious, painful, indefinable, undefinable, awful, terrible, unpronounceable, indescribable, unutterable, untellable, abominable, dreadful, ineffable

   Antonyms:
   good, expressible, profane, secular

2. atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakableadjective

   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:
   irritating, dreadful, indescribable, indefinable, awful, sore, odious, unnameable, execrable, horrifying, frightful, amazing, horrendous, severe, tremendous, dreaded, dire, afflictive, flagitious, grievous, monstrous, atrocious, ineffable, painful, detestable, awing, awed, wicked, dread(a), awe-inspiring, horrific, nasty, terrible, horrible, abominable, frightening, unutterable, awesome, fearsome, fearful, direful, untellable, ugly

   Antonyms:
   secular, expressible, good, profane

3. ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable, unutterableadjective

   too sacred to be uttered

   "the ineffable name of the Deity"

   Synonyms:
   unnameable, atrocious, painful, indefinable, awful, terrible, unpronounceable, indescribable, unutterable, untellable, abominable, dreadful, ineffable

   Antonyms:
   secular, good, profane, expressible

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1. unspeakableadjective

   Synonyms:
   inexpressible, unutterable, ineffable, indescribable, beyond expression

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1. unspeakableadjective

   Synonyms:
   ineffable, unutterable, inexpressible

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1. List of paraphrases for "unspeakable":

   untold, indescribable, inexpressible, heinous, abominable, atrocious

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How to use unspeakable in a sentence?

1. Oscar Wilde:

   About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable.

2. Orange County District:

   A monster with a gun murdered a little boy on his way to kindergarten – because he was cut off on the freeway, the callousness of this crime is unspeakable, but the fact that this couple continued to hide out in plain sight knowing full well they killed a 6-year-old child while Aiden’s grieving parents pleaded with the killers to come forward is [unforgivable].

3. Cormac McCarthy:

   The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

4. First Baptist Church:

   The scene of this unspeakable event has been transformed into a beautiful memorial that celebrates and pays tribute to the lives that were lost.

5. Douglas Kennedy:

   Our family and our country suffered an unspeakable loss due to the inhumanity of one man, we believe in the gentleness that spared his life, but in taming his act of violence, he should not have the opportunity to terrorize again.