What's the difference between indescribable and ineffable?

Indescribable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being described.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blyth said what the children were subjected to was “indescribably awful”.
  • (2) Once more unto the valley of the kings, then, as another Silicon monopolist issues a decree, in this case to the indescribably junior entity that is Norway.
  • (3) "So the thrill of being able to declare that two people of the same sex are actually married is indescribable."
  • (4) Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival , said today, "We are profoundly grateful to Claudio Abbado for all the magnificent, unforgettable, and indescribable experiences that he gave us in the past 47 years.
  • (5) "The indescribable events here amount to the worst form of terrorism.
  • (6) She added: "I still cannot go into her bedroom to sort out her clothes, because the pain of her not being there is indescribable."
  • (7) Trillaphon was a name for an antidepressant, the bad thing was the mostly indescribable interior sense of being constantly underwater with no surface, or of "every cell in your body being sick to its stomach".
  • (8) The persistent, often almost indescribable quality of the distress suggests a central disturbance of the mechanism of pain experience involving the limbic system and the endogenous opiates.
  • (9) I never thought I’d live to see the day that something so terrible, so indescribable would happen in Paris,” Franck, a customer in a bar near the Bataclan told BFMTV.
  • (10) US president Barack Obama also issued a statement saying: "As a father, I cannot imagine the indescribable pain that the parents of these teenage boys are experiencing."
  • (11) In November, Breivik wrote a long letter complaining about the conditions in which he was being held, describing the pen he was forced to write with as "an almost indescribable manifestation of sadism".
  • (12) The pain me and my family have been through is indescribable and it is particularly saddening that all this happened because I was following procedure, and simply doing my job without fear or favour.
  • (13) Nonpareil voluptuousness, intoxication indescribable!
  • (14) It is war – it is indescribable,” said Pierre Meys, spokesman for the Brussels fire department.
  • (15) The experience of coping with lung cancer--from diagnosis to treatment to inevitable death--is indescribably difficult for the cancer patient.
  • (16) "It seems so unfair that I have to have an epidural now, when I didn't have it when the pain was so indescribably awful," she says weakly.
  • (17) And yet it is hard to describe – indescribable, until you're up there, looking down – because the mountain is something other than its substance, something more.
  • (18) There was indescribable chaos, and there were victims everywhere,” Alphonse Youla, a baggage handler, told Belgian TV.
  • (19) The heartache it puts prospective parents through is indescribable.
  • (20) It is almost impossibly, indescribably romantic and really does rank as a once-in-a-lifetime holiday.

Ineffable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was that, and there was the ineffable presence of David Attenborough.
  • (2) The moral worldview of the devoted actor is dominated by what Edmund Burke referred to as “the sublime”: a need for the “delightful terror” of a sense of power, destiny, a giving over to the ineffable and unknown.
  • (3) Maybe, SCOTUSblog was itself playing at a little performance art, a commentary on the search for specificity and certainty in a series of cases that deal primarily with the ineffable realm of human emotions.
  • (4) In his volume of autobiographical essays, A Small Boy and Others , Henry James remembers the Broadway of his youth, where he first saw paintings: “Ineffable, unsurpassable, those hours of initiation which the Broadway of the 1850s had been.
  • (5) Although she was born in Bamako, her parents were from Wassoulou, the fertile south of Mali, and much of her music is based on the idioms of that area, particularly the ancient, bluesy music of the hunters, who you can meet in their jackets covered with mirrors, hooves and the tails of animals, radiating ineffable cool.
  • (6) Where is the entertainer who, quite unbidden, will lead us out of the woods toward a better tomorrow - all the while bravely refusing to compromise their ineffable cool by removing their sunglasses?
  • (7) There's almost nothing to Let the Music Use You – a bassline, an unchanging rhythm track based around an insistent synthetic cowbell noise, a two-note keyboard part, a synthesiser that shifts from a melancholy wash of sound into a delirious, joyful ascending chord sequence and a vocal by a forgotten singer called Ricky Dillard who sounds, for the most part, as if he's making it up on the hoof – and yet it captures that weird, ineffable dancefloor transcendence perfectly.
  • (8) But as the philosopher Gillian Rose once argued, sometimes we retreat into the language of ineffability because we are trying "to mystify something we dare not understand, because we fear that it may be all too understandable."
  • (9) The occasion was relieved for May and Hammond only by Jeremy Corbyn’s ineffable ability to turn victory at the dispatch box into fumbling defeat.
  • (10) A great fashion moment in film is when someone wears something that is supposed to look good, gives onlookers ineffable joy and, finally, so utterly suits the character.
  • (11) A broad range of delegates were ineffably moved by Hu's speech, which contained heartrending lines such as "the scientific outlook on development is the theoretical guidance the party must adhere to for a long time".
  • (12) This will be Jones’s last election as Welsh Labour leader, and his party may yet discover how much they will miss the ineffable qualities of a lucky general.
  • (13) Here, several aspects of the analytic process which allow for the understanding of ineffable experiences in the analysand's history and the analytic situation are investigated: specifically, primal repression, metaphor, and the role of speech in free association.
  • (14) If food is spiritual, then modern "celebrity chefs" have become our priests or gurus, druidic conduits to the ineffable.
  • (15) It's a bit Carry On, a bit Ealing, quintessentially English, ineffably funny.
  • (16) The complaint that the iPad doesn't do something sufficiently specific, or sufficiently path-breaking, ignores the lesson of the iPod's success: if its feel, its looks, and its whole ineffable personality manages to seize enough imaginations, it will triumph.
  • (17) Nothing would be left to chance; everything would now be perfectly, ineffably, Chaplin.
  • (18) There is, as everyone who meets him seems to note, something ineffably sad about his eyes, even when he laughs, which he does in a gruff, mirthless shout.
  • (19) And support came from the ineffable Jacob ("vox populi, vox dei") Rees-Mogg, who unwound himself from the bench and took off his phantom top hat to point out that it was vitally important for such decisions to be taken quickly because business moves quickly.
  • (20) As he performed his first handstand his legs seemed to stretch to the heavens and with ineffable style and grace he completed one of the most consummate pommel displays the Olympic stage has seen.