unsayable

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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. 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.

词形变化

more unsayable comparative most unsayable superlative

词汇关系

近义词
unspeakable unutterable ineffable
衍生词
unsayableness unsayably

词源

Etymology tree
English un-
English say
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English sayable
English unsayable
From un- + sayable.
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