ineffable
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"We are grateful for her passion, her wit, her ineffable style, and all the summers she spent in the tent."
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
With Frankenstein, he worries he’ll jinx the monster by talking too much about him, snuffing out the ineffable thing that he says fueled his performance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
This trend is often blamed on an ineffable consumer preference, or Americans’ being fat, but that isn’t exactly true.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025
Despite Lawrence’s doubts, he exudes the ineffable sense of someone in deep communion with his faith.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025
It all added up to more than he could really put into words, maybe more than even a poet could—something beyond the sum of its parts, something mysterious and ineffable and gorgeous to behold.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing ineffable
The Great Gatsby
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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