UNSPEAKABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unspeakably mean? 

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

1. to an inexpressible degree

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSPEAKABLY (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:

unspeakable (defying expression or description)

 Context examples 

In that case, my lot would become unspeakably wretched.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

New to such circumstances, the importance of it appeared unspeakably great, and she contemplated it as one of those grand events, of which the ordinary course of life can hardly afford a return.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She talked to her, listened to her, read to her; and the tranquillity of such evenings, her perfect security in such a tete-a-tete from any sound of unkindness, was unspeakably welcome to a mind which had seldom known a pause in its alarms or embarrassments.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)