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" atrociousabominableawfuldreadfulpainfulterribleunspeakable
defying expression or description "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor" indefinableindescribableineffableunspeakableuntellableunutterable