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ineffable | x |

As an adjective ineffable

is beyond expression in words; unspeakable.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

ineffable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Beyond expression in words; unspeakable.
  • * 1919 ,
    • Stroeve was trying to express a feeling which he had never known before, and he did not know how to put it into common terms. He was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable .
  • * Gay Watson, Stephen Batchelor, Guy Claxton, The Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, science, and our day-to-day lives (2000) p. 100:
    • As Alan Watts (1961) wrote, it involves trying to speak the unspeakable, scrute the inscrutable and eff the ineffable .
  • Forbidden to be uttered; taboo.

    • Antonyms

    * (beyond expression in words) noisy

    Synonyms

    * (beyond expression in words) indescribable, inexpressible, unspeakable * (forbidden to be uttered) taboo, unspeakable, unutterable * See also

    Related terms

    * ineffability * ineffableness * ineffably * counterparts in calculating: ** innumerable ** innumerous ** unnumerable ** incalculable

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----