indescribably

indescribable +‎ -ly

indescribably (comparative more indescribably, superlative most indescribably)

1. In an indescribable manner.
   • 1879, John McElroy, chapter 24, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons:

     The appearance of the dead was indescribably ghastly.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     There was something indescribably nerve-shaking and menacing in that constant mutter, which seemed to shape itself into the very syllables of the half-breed, endlessly repeated, "We will kill you if we can."

   • 2023 October 11, David Yaffe-Bellany, Matthew Goldstein, J. Edward Moreno, quoting Caroline Ellison, “Caroline Ellison Says She and Sam Bankman-Fried Lied for Years”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     “I felt this sense of relief that I didn’t have to lie anymore, and that I could start taking responsibility even though I felt indescribably bad.”