| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | in·ef·fa·ble |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n- f  -bl |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Incapable of being expressed; indescribable or unutterable. See synonyms at unspeakable. 2. Not to be uttered; taboo: the ineffable name of God. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ineff bilis : in-, not; see in–1 + effbilis, utterable (from effr , to utter ( ex-, ex- + fr, to speak; see bh-2 in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | in·ef fa·bili·ty, in·effa·ble·ness —NOUN
in·effa·bly —ADVERB
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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