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undescribably

undescribably is the alternative form of indescribably.

Meaning of indescribably

Adverb

indescribably (comparative more indescribably, superlative most indescribably)

  1. In an indescribable manner.
    • The appearance of the dead was indescribably ghastly.1879, John McElroy, chapter 24, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

Forms of undescribably

comparativemore undescribably
superlativemost undescribably

Origin of undescribably

From undescribable + -ly.

Questions about undescribably

What is undescribably the alternative form of?
Undescribably is the alternative form of indescribably.

Words near undescribably in the dictionary

  1. undescended testes
  2. undescended testis
  3. undescribability
  4. undescribable
  5. undescribableness
  6. undescribably
  7. undescribed
  8. undescried
  9. undescript
  10. undescriptive
  11. undescriptively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undescribably (page history and authors); indescribably (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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