unutterably

English

Etymology

unutterable +‎ -ly

Adverb

unutterably (comparative more unutterably, superlative most unutterably)

  1. In an unutterable manner; inexpressibly.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 167:
      We both of us went on our knees, and, feeling unutterably sad, a whispered prayer went up from our lips as the poor fellow's soul flitted away to a happier and brighter world, and all was over.
    • 2021 August 15, “The Tragedy of Afghanistan”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      The rapid reconquest of the capital, Kabul, by the Taliban after two decades of a staggeringly expensive, bloody effort to establish a secular government with functioning security forces in Afghanistan is, above all, unutterably tragic.
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