(a.) Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of samples with indefinable statistics due to a zero denominator can be as high as 30% when the sample sizes are 500 for three, four and five category-state classifications.
(2) A chest X-ray film showed a left hydropneumothorax with an indefinable left diaphragm, that was confirmed by ultrasonography.
(3) There’s a special extra quality you need that is indefinable, and I know I don’t have it.
(4) Diabetes is more than one disease, it is indefinable, probably genetically multifactorial, and presents several facets with varying degrees of heredity and environment in their constitution.
(5) Gonad primordium of Ambystoma mexicanum when grafted at tail-bud stage on Triturus alpestris is indefinately tolerated.
(6) Moyes had suggested that there might be some intangible mental weakness behind his team’s poor start, even an indefinable “something” that goes beyond rational explanation: a bad vibe, a hex, a shadow.
(7) The remaining implantation sites contained either abnormal, very retarded embryos or indefinable embryo remnants.
(8) Kaposi's sarcoma was diagnosed in a 62 year old female at the last stage of an indefined malignant lymphoma.
(9) It is there in Javert's conversion towards the end of the novel: his sense of "some indefinable sense of justice according to God's rules that was the reverse of justice according to man".
(10) There is no doubt that over the last 2 decades medical imaging has changed the diagnostic process, but its influence on the outcome of disease other than infections is less certain and probably indefinable.
(11) "I have not come as a taskmaster," she said, her eyes elevated towards the room's ornate sunlit ceiling as if focusing on some indefinable spot.
(12) These included, in order of their frequency, QTc prolongation (85%), T-wave abnormality (82%), PQ prolongation (19%), widening of QRS with or without bundle branch block pattern (19%), and supraventricular or indefinable tachycardia with wide QRS complexes (8%).
(13) But these are inevitably imperfect efforts to capture in visual form the unique charisma, the indefinable Clegginess of Clegg.
(14) The patients feel a typical, almost indefinable, particuliar crawling sensation reminiscent of the movement of worms.
(15) The majority of oligodendrocytes contain large indefinable heterogeneous electron-dense structures within their perikaryon or processes.
(16) Once Alex and Danielle thought they saw his white pant-leg duck into the bathroom; another time the couple heard an indefinable growling under the bed.
(17) This recording method is especially good for continuing education courses and for detailed storing of certain results, because the method may be reprodused indefinately.
(18) Wetmore and Singer add that some tumors are radioresistant for indefinable reasons.
(19) The problem of defining life is discussed, using as foundation Herman Dooyeweerd's philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea, which holds that life is indefineable.
(20) We have to balance our fears of the indefinable, nebulous worlds of crime and terrorism, with the fact that, if we put Tasers in our public servants' hands, at some point they'll use them on us.
Unutterable
Definition:
(a.) Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
(2) The organisations that find and train men like Atta have since been responsible for unutterable crimes in many countries and societies, from England to Iraq, in their attempt to create a system where the cold and loveless zombie would be the norm, and culture would be dead.
(3) For a mother to bury her child in any circumstances is truly agonising but to bury your child when you know she died in such an appalling way is unutterably awful.
(4) Now he's returning to the stage with another flawed, difficult character: Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone, the tragic hero of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge , whose pride and unutterable obsession with his niece lead him towards the betrayal of his family and his community.
(5) "For a mother to bury her child in any circumstances is truly agonising, but to bury your child when you know she died in such an appalling way is unutterably awful."
(6) Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform echoed those concerns, saying: “These latest figures on safety in custody are unutterably terrible.
(7) In comments published the day after the upper house of the Italian parliament approved the historic expulsion of the three-times prime minister, who was convicted in August of tax fraud, Francesca Pascale said the move was "a coup d'état" that had caused her "unutterable bitterness".
(8) You'd think it would be tricky having to wake up and face the dawning realisation that every word in your vernacular to describe ethnic minorities is now unutterably wrong.
(9) I ask her if she agrees with the critic who called Brand New Ancients “beautiful but unutterably bleak” and she looks taken aback.
(10) But their pitch was repeatedly passed over, for the perfectly understandable reason that TV commissioners felt that watching people make cakes would be unutterably dull.
(11) It's comedy as bravery - an attempt to make laughter from unutterable grief.
(12) It is unutterably sad that women have lived and died nursing an unfulfilled vocation to serve as priests.
(13) Let's not add another episode of " unutterable shame " to Australia's archive of atrocity.
(14) Like whistling in the dark, we all sing together sometimes when we’re afraid, soldiers marching in unison to It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, and we choose songs to make light of things that are unutterably gloomy.
(15) Britain had its own soap operas, of course, but they were either as down-to-earth as we could make them ( Coronation Street set the trend, beginning in 1960 as a portrait of a working-class street in an age of transition and still staying fairly true to its gritty roots in the late 1970s when Dallas turned up), or they were unutterable rubbish done on the cheap by a pool of typing monkeys, like Crossroads , the saga of a Birmingham motel.