inexpressible

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Olga, another mourner who taught the younger daughter to draw, said both sisters were talented and outgoing, and described their death as an "inexpressible pain".

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

“Happy Place” is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2023

Let’s hope it works, because the alternatives are literally inexpressible.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2023

It was an image that would have fit into “Gender Queer,” a tantalizing yearning at the inexpressible, a discovery perhaps not yet made.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022

I was silent; Helen had calmed me; but in the tranquillity she imparted there was an alloy of inexpressible sadness.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë