What's the difference between indescribable and unspeakable?

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.

Unspeakable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mr Hunt, your plans for the health service have revealed a worrying ignorance of the realities of life in the NHS, and your comments about our lack of professionalism and vocation are unspeakably insulting.
  • (2) It portrays a bad moment in an event full of unspeakable moments.
  • (3) Jonathan Franzen , no friend to the rapid onward march of technology, has now turned his ire on Twitter, reportedly describing the microblogging site as "unspeakably irritating" at a book reading.
  • (4) They might be accused of unspeakable crimes, but Mladic's peers are – on paper – a high-calibre bunch, including over the years a president, a prime minister, defence ministers, interior ministers, and army and intelligence chiefs.
  • (5) As I told them in Dakar, Hissène Habré did unspeakable things to me.
  • (6) For 15 years, Matthew Shepard’s unspeakably brutal murder on a lonely prairie in Wyoming has been a byword for the very worst of American anti-gay bigotry and a rallying cry for a more tolerant, more inclusive society.
  • (7) Bateman's unspeakable imaginings are the disease of an imperviously complacent world.
  • (8) "Any parallel with the affairs of the Berlusconi family is therefore not only inappropriate and incomprehensible but also offensive to the memory of those who were deprived of all rights and, after atrocious and unspeakable suffering, deprived of their lives."
  • (9) The Garner family and I have always stressed that we do not believe that all police are bad, in fact we have stressed that most police are not bad.” Later the US justice secretary, Eric Holder, condemned what he called an “unspeakable act of barbarism”.
  • (10) The home office minister, Beverley Hughes, went as far as to brand the programme "unspeakably sick".
  • (11) At the time of the plaque’s removal , Brian Kwoba, one of the campaigners, said Rhodes was “responsible for all manner of stealing land, massacring tens of thousands of black Africans, imposing a regime of unspeakable labour exploitation in the diamond mines and devising proto-apartheid policies”.
  • (12) Obviously to do that to anybody is pretty low, but to do that to somebody who trusted you and cared about you is just unspeakable."
  • (13) March 4, 2016 matt blaze (@mattblaze) Cyber pathogens are so unspeakably dangerous that the open research community has wisely never published a single paper about them.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Of course their unspeakably obnoxious stage manner was not to everybody’s taste.
  • (15) Abbott said if it was confirmed the plane was shot down, “that is an unspeakable crime and the perpetrators must be brought to justice”.
  • (16) Photograph: Supplied In Oscar compound, where the hunger strike started a day later, protesting asylum seekers chanted at the gates: “Freedom, Freedom, Freedom.” The men in Foxtrot held a silent protest at the wire gate of the compound, standing in the rain for two hours in an unspeaking vigil.
  • (17) The novel opens with Clay's return from New York to Los Angeles, where he quickly becomes embroiled in a Hollywood-noir thriller plot involving threatening texts from unseen stalkers, dark and duplicitous sex, sinister disappearances and the requisite scenes of unspeakable violence.
  • (18) Even so, the changing circumstances of al-Shabaab's increasing aggression and apparent lack of central command have led to unspeakable violence against Somali and international civilians, and is a question that demands a robust answer.
  • (19) In her 1963 novel A Summer Birdcage , Margaret Drabble’s narrator Sarah describes a “loathsome flat” in the King’s Road, Chelsea, and an “unspeakably sordid” place in Highgate.
  • (20) They had suffered what their lawyers describe as "unspeakable acts of brutality" including castration, beatings and severe sexual assaults.