INEXPRESSIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inexpressibly mean? 

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

1. to an inexpressible degree

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEXPRESSIBLY (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:

inexpressible (defying expression)

 Context examples 

"I'm glad of that, he is so lonely. Good night, Mother, dear. It is so inexpressibly comfortable to have you here," was Meg's answer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Satisfied that it was so, and feeling it her due, she had enjoyed it without reflection; and only in the dread of being supplanted, found how inexpressibly important it had been.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The recollection of what I then said, of my conduct, my manners, my expressions during the whole of it, is now, and has been many months, inexpressibly painful to me.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As I say, while I appreciated the power of the terrific denunciation that swept out of Wolf Larsen’s mouth, I was inexpressibly shocked.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He took it up with a snatch; he looked at the edge; then shot a glance at me, inexpressibly peculiar, and quite incomprehensible: a glance that seemed to take and make note of every point in my shape, face, and dress; for it traversed all, quick, keen as lightning.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is something for a woman to be assured, in her eight-and-twentieth year, that she has not lost one charm of earlier youth; but the value of such homage was inexpressibly increased to Anne, by comparing it with former words, and feeling it to be the result, not the cause of a revival of his warm attachment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

How inexpressibly different in these domestic arrangements from such as she had read about—from abbeys and castles, in which, though certainly larger than Northanger, all the dirty work of the house was to be done by two pair of female hands at the utmost.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Still, society associated my name and person with hers; I yet saw her and heard her daily: something of her breath (faugh!) mixed with the air I breathed; and besides, I remembered I had once been her husband—that recollection was then, and is now, inexpressibly odious to me; moreover, I knew that while she lived I could never be the husband of another and better wife; and, though five years my senior (her family and her father had lied to me even in the particular of her age), she was likely to live as long as I, being as robust in frame as she was infirm in mind.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She could only resolve at last, that she would still avoid a meeting with her, and communicate all that need be told by letter; that it would be inexpressibly desirable to have her removed just now for a time from Highbury, and—indulging in one scheme more—nearly resolve, that it might be practicable to get an invitation for her to Brunswick Square.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)