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When you claim that something is banal, you do not like it because you think it is ordinary, dull, commonplace, and boring.
If you commune with something, you communicate without using words because you feel especially close to or in tune with it.
Ennui is the feeling of being bored, tired, and dissatisfied with life.
An epiphany is the moment when someone suddenly realizes or understands something of great significance or importance.
Something ethereal has a delicate beauty that makes it seem not part of the real world.
If you think something, such as a statement or idea, is fatuous, you consider it stupid or extremely silly; a fatuous hope is unrealistic.
A garrulous person talks a lot, especially about unimportant things.
Hackneyed words, images, ideas, or sayings have been used so often that they no longer seem interesting or amusing.
If you describe ideas as jejune, you are saying they are childish and uninteresting; the adjective jejune also describes those having little experience, maturity, or knowledge.
Someone who is loquacious talks too much.
Something that is mundane is very ordinary and not interesting or exciting, especially because it happens very often.
Numinous objects or places seem spiritual or holy and possess a mysterious power that makes you feel that a spiritual being may be present.
If someone is pedantic, they give too much importance to unimportant details and formal rules.
If you describe something as pedestrian, you think that it is ordinary and not interesting.
A platitude is an unoriginal statement that has been used so many times that it is considered almost meaningless and pointless, even though it is presented as important.
A portent is a warning that indicates what is likely to happen in the future, which is usually something unpleasant.
Prattle is mindless chatter that seems like it will never stop.
Something that is prodigious is very large, impressive, or great.
When someone exhibits profundity, they display great intellectual depth and understanding; profundity can also be the depth or complexity of something.
Something prosaic is dull, boring, and ordinary.
Something that is sacrosanct is considered to be so important, special, or holy that no one is allowed to criticize, tamper with, or change it in any way.
Something that is transcendent not only surpasses all others in quality, achievement, or significance, but exceeds normal limits or boundaries.
If you refer to something as a trifle, you mean that it is of little or no importance or value.
A trite remark or idea is so overused that it is no longer interesting or novel.
Something vapid is dull, boring, and/or tiresome.
Venerable people command respect because they are old and wise.
If you repeat something verbatim, you use the same words that were spoken or written.
Adj.
ineffable
in-EF-uh-buhl
Context
The ineffable, indescribable joy that Marguerite felt when she watched her son walk for the first time overwhelmed her. After the toddler stepped clumsily toward her, Marguerite swooped him up with a happy shout as ineffable, wordless pride filled her. Later, when Marguerite attempted to describe her emotions to her husband, she found that there were no words for the moment because it was so ineffably precious and rare.
Quiz:Try again!
What is an example of something ineffable?
A common stage of life everyone must go through that does eventually pass.
The type of book that you tend to read on weekends.
A piece of art so stunning that you cannot find words to express its beauty.
FineFable So beautiful and ineffable was the love that Billy held for Jill that he simply could not express it, even in the finefable that he wrote for her.
Examples
_Finding Neverland_ deals with weighty themes such as the power of the imagination, the ineffable wonder of childhood, the loss of innocence and the nature of creativity.
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USA Today
Havana is all about pulse, an ineffable mixture of the culture, the street life, the music and the cityscape, aglow in the tropical sun.
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Newsweek
As the performance built, then ebbed toward the work’s ineffable close, one wished that an announcement had been made before the concert forestalling applause at the end.
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The New York Times
When I hit the water, I feel all the familiar feelings, the ocean seeping into my wetsuit, the frantic bubbles on my face, the ineffable moment when the body’s gyroscope switches over from gravity to buoyancy.
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Los Angeles Times
