unnamable
- a word derived from namable.
Example Sentences
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Haring couldn’t change the way people stared at single Black mothers, and she couldn’t heal whatever unnamable pain had plagued the woman who died.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2021
None of that dispels the cloud of unnamable dread that travels around with me every waking moment of every day, and sometimes invades my dreams: I don't know whether I'll ever see her again.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2021
There’s some kind of unnamable pulse, and if I see that embodied in a performer, I pay attention.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2019
It is to make sense of what we just saw; to simplify an inchoate and unnamable experience into something we can carry with us.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2018
The song filled each child with a bewitched, unnamable feeling; the same feeling that drove men into battle.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
