untranslatable
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
She's moved on to selling prints of untranslatable words with their English definitions, as well as wire flowers which you can send as gifts in the post.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2021
The bulk of what we say is nonverbal, untranslatable to texts.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2020
We often began our work day together saying, “You know, this is an untranslatable play!”
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 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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