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Unsayable

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not capable of being said.

    "Whatsoever has been said before me, even on any subject, surely it belongs thereto that it can be repeated by me in rehearsal, and hence it does not seem possible that in this sense it should be so fitly called unspeakable or unsayable."

  2. 2
    Not allowed or not fit to be said. rare

    "His task: to say the unsayable. To say all the words we have normally suppressed and to say them and say them and say them."

Etymology

From un- + sayable.

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