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An inexpressible feeling is too strong to put into words. Joy, grief, love, relief — the big ones. It is a literary word. You will see it in books and careful writing more than in a chat. People do not usually use it for small things like being a bit hungry. Though actually, writers sometimes pile it on (“inexpressible beauty”) as a high compliment. That use is a little stretched, but you will meet it in older, grand prose. The word is about a feeling (or a quality) that language cannot hold, not about a face that shows nothing.
難以言喻的、無法形容的(偏文學、書面)
組成in- (not) + expressible. Expressible means “able to be put into words.”
同家族的字
- expressibleinexpressible is in- (not) + expressible
- expressthe verb at the heart of expressible: to put a feeling into words
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
inexpressibleadj
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Unable to be expressed; not able to be put into words.
- She felt inexpressible contempt for her attackers.
- That noise, that awful clamour of uncouthness inexpressible, is the love-call of the storm bird!
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。