
adjective
- not communicable by utterance; unspeakable; beyond expression: unutterable joy.
- not utterable; not pronounceable: an unutterable foreign word.
adjective
- incapable of being expressed in words
adj.1580s, from un- (1) “not” + utterable (see utter (v.)). As a noun, from 1788; unutterables as a euphemism for “trousers” is recorded by 1843.