INDESCRIBABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indescribably mean? 

• INDESCRIBABLY (adverb)
  The adverb INDESCRIBABLY has 1 sense:

1. to an inexpressible degree

  Familiarity information: INDESCRIBABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDESCRIBABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an inexpressible degree

Synonyms:

indescribably; ineffably; inexpressibly; unspeakably; unutterably

Context example:

she was looking very young tonight, and, as usual, indescribably beautiful, in a simple strapless dress of a green and white silky cotton

Pertainym:

indescribable (defying expression or description)

 Context examples 

And then, her air, her manner, her tout ensemble, is so indescribably improved!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I know that I was filled with pleasure by all this; but, at first, with an indescribably sensitive pleasure, that a very little would have changed to pain.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably new and, from its very novelty, incredibly sweet.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was deep-mouthed shouting of men, frightened shrieks of women, howling and barking of curs, and over all a sullen, thunderous rumble, indescribably menacing and terrible.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet the cottage was not deserted, for a low sound came to our ears—a kind of drone of misery and despair which was indescribably melancholy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She gave a violent start and a kind of gasping cry when I spoke, and that cry and start troubled me more than all the rest, for there was something indescribably guilty about them.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was no paler and but littler thinner than in the autumn, yet there was a strange, transparent look about it, as if the mortal was being slowly refined away, and the immortal shining through the frail flesh with an indescribably pathetic beauty.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A sort of instinct seemed to warn him of her entrance, even when he did not see it; and when he was looking quite away from the door, if she appeared at it, his cheek would glow, and his marble-seeming features, though they refused to relax, changed indescribably, and in their very quiescence became expressive of a repressed fervour, stronger than working muscle or darting glance could indicate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was something indescribably nerve-shaking and menacing in that constant mutter, which seemed to shape itself into the very syllables of the half-breed, endlessly repeated, We will kill you if we can. We will kill you if we can.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At this signal, the little elephant, with a dexterity that was next to marvellous in so small an animal, whisked the chair round with Mr. Omer in it, and rattled it off, pell-mell, into the parlour, without touching the door-post: Mr. Omer indescribably enjoying the performance, and looking back at me on the road as if it were the triumphant issue of his life's exertions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)