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unutterable

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too intense or terrible to describe

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But, Dolly, forgive me!" She sat down. He listened to her hard, heavy breathing, and he was unutterably sorry for her. She tried several times to begin to speak, but could not. He waited.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable!

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Mrs. Pocket received her property, at first with a look of unutterable surprise as if she had never seen it before, and then with a laugh of recognition, and said, "Thank you, Flopson," and forgot me, and went on reading.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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This belt was the most salient thing about him. It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable.

Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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I felt physically weak and broken down: but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind:

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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