untranslatable
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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This combination can give a better sense of the untranslatable meaning of the word; the wrapping of your arms around someone to make them feel safe.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2024
I think there’s a kind of quiet beauty in leaving some things untranslatable, and just sitting beside someone with very different value systems and understanding, “This is what gives you joy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
The bulk of what we say is nonverbal, untranslatable to texts.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2020
This solo, according to her website, “dwells in the untranslatable, sensual, absorbent, expansive, nonlinear, protean and mercurial nature of embodied thought.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2018
No doubt this was all a matter of shifgrethor—prestige, face, place, the pride-relationship, the untranslatable and all-important principle of social authority in Karhide and all civilizations of Gethen.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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