How do you use the word "ineffable" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "ineffable" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "ineffable": The religious may like the article "Glossolalia and Linguistic Alterity: The Ontology of Ineffable Speech." Something ineffable about you fascinates me, woman.

Ineffable Meaning

/ɪˈnɛf.ə.bəl/

Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjBeyond expression in words; unspeakable.

adjForbidden to be uttered; taboo.

Sentence Examples

The religious may like the article "Glossolalia and Linguistic Alterity: The Ontology of Ineffable Speech."

Something ineffable about you fascinates me, woman.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

sacred unspeakable indescribable

Antonyms:

profane

CEFR Practice Quiz

The beauty of the sunset was so ____ that words could not describe it.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The beauty of the mountain view was truly ____, leaving the hikers in silent admiration.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti Proto-Italic *fāōr Latin for Latin effārī, effor Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin effābilis Latin ineffābilislbor. Middle French ineffablebor. English ineffable Borrowed from Middle French ineffable, a learned borrowing from Latin ineffābilis, from in- + effābilis.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Devotion bids aspire to nobler things, to boundless love, and joys ineffable: and such her expectation from kind Heav'n." — 1750, “Theodora”, Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music):

"Stroeve was trying to express a feeling which he had never known before, and he did not know how to put it into common terms. He was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable." — 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 39, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

"They, and many others, are one with the trains that ran them, part of that ineffable atmosphere of Scotland's railways." — 1958 July 26, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, page 495:

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time." — 1990, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Good Omens:

"As Alan Watts (1961) wrote, it involves trying to speak the unspeakable, scrute the inscrutable and eff the ineffable." — 2012, Gay Watson, Stephen Batchelor, Guy Claxton, The Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, science, and our day-to-day lives:

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