英和和英

副詞

unutterably (comparative more unutterably, superlative most unutterably)

1. In an unutterable manner; inexpressibly; so bad or otherwise extreme that one cannot talk about it.
   • 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.

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 12:

     I turned away and left her to finish her journey in peace, feeling, but only for a moment or two, that I had been an unutterably mean hound.

   • 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.