unnameable
- a word derived from nameable.
Example Sentences
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“There’s something unnameable that certain people have,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
Haring couldn’t change the way people stared at single Black mothers, and she couldn’t heal whatever unnameable pain had plagued the woman who died.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2021
It’s a film that does not offer its narrative as a guiding prompt for the everyday but rather uses its exercise in genre as a means to explore what is too often the unnameable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
When the dancers adopt them, you see an unnameable emotional state take form.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2015
Out of it came a stench, not the sickly odour of decay in the meads of Morgul, but a foul reek, as if filth unnameable were piled and hoarded in the dark within.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
