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unspeakable

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unspeakable in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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"
    atrocious  abominable  awful  dreadful  painful  terrible  unspeakable 
  2. defying expression or description
    "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
    indefinable  indescribable  ineffable  unspeakable  untellable  unutterable 
  3. too sacred to be uttered
    "the ineffable name of the Deity"
    ineffable  unnameable  unspeakable  unutterable 
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