English Explanatory Dictionary

unspeakable

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Incapable of being spoken or uttered.
Impossible to speak about.
Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
Extremely bad or objectionable.
That cannot be referenced in source code, due to having no usable name.

noun

Something that cannot or must not be spoken about.

Pronunciation

en-us-unspeakable.ogg

Word forms

unspeakable more unspeakable most unspeakable unspeakables

Etymology

From Middle English unspekable, equivalent to un- + speakable.

Synonyms

Related words

algospeak avoidance speech censorship denialism elephant in the room emperor's new clothes head in the sand open secret polite fiction Streisand effect taboo Voldemort effect

Derived words

unspeakably unspeakableness

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