What's the difference between inexpressible and unspeakable?

Inexpressible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not capable of expression or utterance in language; ineffable; unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At Chapel-le-Frith in 1786, for instance, Wesley recorded a kind of punk festival riot: "The terror and confusion was inexpressible.
  • (2) So, on Saturday, when my friend Amelia Bonow posted this plainspoken, unapologetic announcement on her Facebook page , it felt simultaneously so obvious, so simple and so revolutionary: “Like a year ago I had an abortion at the Planned Parenthood on Madison Ave, and I remember this experience with a near inexpressible level of gratitude ...
  • (3) Two Rec-like mutants of Neurospora (uvs-3, and nuh-4) are deficient mainly inexpressed levels of D3, the endo-exonuclease.
  • (4) We see and hear the incomprehension in his very language, which is dull and inexpressive, as if he doesn't really inhabit the words he uses; like everything else around him, language appears to not quite belong to him and there isn't much he can make of it.
  • (5) This is of special importance for practical medicine since it follows that scientifically inexpressible elements must play a part in coming to a rational clinical decision.
  • (6) It is likely that verbal inexpressivity interferes with the emergence of psychopathology.
  • (7) They emphasize the inexpressive character of symptoms and thus the relatively long time which elapses before causal anti-tumourous treatment is started in child patients.
  • (8) He believes that if he could learn to paint, he might arrive at "compassion" (what he actually means is empathy), and that compassion will lead him onwards towards some inexpressible kind of enlightenment.
  • (9) He will always look wooden, inexpressive, next to the mobility of a Blair or a Milburn.
  • (10) The reason soon became clear: he was fortunate, and inexpressibly grateful, just to be alive.
  • (11) Other terms that could be used coincide only partially: finite and infinite; capable of being worked through and not capable of being worked through; expressible and inexpressible; finished and unfinished; possible and impossible.
  • (12) Although the pathophysiology of malabsorption, in these cases, is still not clear, the therapeutic response to pancreatin, in the present case, suggested pancreatic insufficiency, reinforced by the normal d-xylose test and the small intestinal biopsy with inexpressive result.
  • (13) Wagner's treatise On Conducting formulates a theory of interpretation that just happens to give a philosophical underpinning for Wagner's own performance practice and rails against what he sees as the prosaic and inexpressive conducting of Mendelssohn.
  • (14) In another era, Haneke's inexpressibly painful movies might have been dismissed as mere ordeal-miserablism; the noughties saw him crowned as the Cassandra of the cinema, a ferocious moral conscience.
  • (15) On the other hand, during the activity of the 'milk gland' (under action of exogenous prolactin and in natural incubation), only the lateral lobes showed a remarkable increase in the amount of lipid, whereas both median regions showed only an inexpressive increase of lipid within their epithelium.
  • (16) An unusual case of illness of a 49 year old woman who suffered from inexpressive skin rash for three years is described.
  • (17) A thematic analysis of 30 narrative accounts of bereavement revealed nine themes that included five core themes in bereavement--being stopped, hurting, missing, holding, and seeking; three meta-themes about bereavement--change, expectations, and inexpressibility; and a contextual theme--personal history.
  • (18) Undeterred, our "hero" goes on an epic journey to the shops to buy his cold, inexpressive partner a gift.
  • (19) Statistical analysis showed significant improvement in dexetimide-patients with regard to gross motor tremor, facial inexpressiveness, parkinsonian gait (after two weeks) + dyskinesia (after six months).

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.