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Impossible or extremely difficult to express adequately in words.
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- inexpressible grief
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Inexpressible grief silenced him.
She felt inexpressible wonder.
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- inexpressible
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more inexpressible; superlative most inexpressible where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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