Definitions

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  • adverb In a way that is impossible to name.

Etymologies

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unnameable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Frances is feeling a familiar yet unnameably old feeling.

    Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996

  • Frances is feeling a familiar yet unnameably old feeling.

    Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996

  • Accustomed only to the chaste touching of a maiden's face, the kiss of the white men he instinctively regarded as unnameably unclean.

    The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��

  • My obligations to your husband are many and unnameably great, and I just wish to acknowledge them.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • Friday night I finally figured out the trick to the evening projection and got a table with some friends at the Place de la Republique (the bleacher chairs are unnameably uncomfortable).

    State of the Art 2008

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