Speakable refers to something that can be spoken or expressed in words. The antonyms for this word include unspeakable, unutterable, ineffable, inexpressible, silent, and mute. Unspeakable and unutterable both refer to something that cannot be spoken or should not be spoken due to its severity or taboo nature. Ineffable and inexpressible describe something that cannot be expressed in words, either due to its complexity or transcendence. Silent means not speaking at all, while mute refers to the inability to speak. These antonyms highlight the limits of language and the power of unspoken or indescribable experiences.

What are the antonyms for Speakable?

• adj.

  • noun
  • inexpressible
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  • unexpressible
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Famous quotes with Speakable

• It is all work and forgotten work, this peopled, clothed, articulate-speaking, high-towered, wide-acred World. The hands of forgotten brave men have made it a World for us; they,— honour to them; they, in spite of the idle and the dastard. This English Land, here and now, is the summary of what was found of wise, and noble, and accordant with God's Truth, in all the generations of English Men. Our English Speech is speakable because there were Hero-Poets of our blood and lineage; speakable in proportion to the number of these. This Land of England has its conquerors, possessors, which change from epoch to epoch, from day to day; but its real conquerors, creators, and eternal proprietors are these following, and their representatives if you can find them: All the Heroic Souls that ever were in England, each in their degree; all the men that ever cut a thistle, drained a puddle out of England, contrived a wise scheme in England, did or said a true and valiant thing in England.

  Thomas Carlyle
• One would have thought that the notion of an impersonal critic was as patently absurd as that of an impersonal person: yet playwrights still cherish it as a sort of holy ideal. Admittedly, we all make : but this one is particularly wishful. The man who asks for an anonymous, impersonal criticism is trying to elevate criticism to the status of a science; whereas it is, I am afraid, only an art. The critic's business is to write readable English: the playwright's to write speakable English. Beyond that it is every man for himself.

  Kenneth Tynan

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