• Utterable

    Full definition of utterable

    Adjective

    utterable

    1. Capable of being expressed in words, especially audibly.
      • 1850, Herman_Melville, White Jacket, ch. 92,An utterable nausea oppressed me.
      • 1917, Jack_London, Jerry of the Islands, ch. 20,In his vocabulary was no word for "crocodile"; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import.

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