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unutterably

unutterably adverb: in an unutterable manner; inexpressibly; so bad or otherwise extreme that one cannot talk about it.

Adverb

unutterably (comparative more unutterably, superlative most unutterably)

  1. In an unutterable manner; inexpressibly; so bad or otherwise extreme that one cannot talk about it.
    • We both of us went on our knees, and, feeling unutterably sad, a whispered prayer went up from our lips as the poor fellow's soul flitted away to a happier and brighter world, and all was over.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 167
    • I turned away and left her to finish her journey in peace, feeling, but only for a moment or two, that I had been an unutterably mean hound.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 12

Forms of unutterably

comparativemore unutterably
superlativemost unutterably

Origin of unutterably

From unutterable + -ly.

Questions about unutterably

What does unutterably mean?
Unutterably means in an unutterable manner; inexpressibly; so bad or otherwise extreme that one cannot talk about it.
What part of speech is unutterably?
Unutterably is an adverb.

Words near unutterably in the dictionary

  1. unutterabilities
  2. unutterability
  3. unutterable
  4. unutterableness
  5. unutterables
  6. unutterably
  7. unuttered
  8. unuxorial
  9. unuxorious
  10. UNV
  11. unvacant

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