different between vile vs unspeakable

English

Etymology

From Old French vil, from Latin vilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l
• Homophone: vial

Adjective

vile (comparative viler or more vile, superlative vilest or most vile)

1. Morally low; base; despicable.
2. Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.

Synonyms

• (morally low): base, despicable, mean, ignoble

Derived terms

• vilify

Translations

Anagrams

• Levi, Viel, evil, live, veil, vlei

Albanian

Etymology

A formation from vjel (“to pluck, harvest”).

Noun

vile f (indefinite plural vile, definite singular vilja, definite plural vilet)

1. bunch of grape

Related terms

• vjel
• vjell

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?l?]

Noun

vile f

1. dative/locative singular of vila

Estonian

Etymology

From vilisema +? -e.

Noun

vile (genitive vile, partitive vilet)

1. whistle

Declension

French

Adjective

vile

1. feminine singular of vil

Italian

Etymology

From Latin v?lis (“cheap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi.le/

Adjective

vile (plural vili)

1. cowardly, dastardly

   Synonyms: codardo, vigliacco

2. base, miserable, mean

   Synonym: miserabile

3. cheap, worthless, base

   Synonym: privo di valore

Noun

vile m or f (plural vili)

1. coward

   Synonyms: fifone, codardo

Derived terms

• avvilire
• svilire

Related terms

• vilmente
• viltà
• vilipendio

Anagrams

• levi, live, veli

Latin

Adjective

v?le

1. inflection of v?lis:
   1. nominative neuter singular
   2. accusative neuter singular
   3. vocative neuter singular

Old French

Alternative forms

• ville

Etymology

From Latin v?lla.

Noun

vile f (oblique plural viles, nominative singular vile, nominative plural viles)

1. town; city

Descendants

• French: ville

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vidly (Russian ????? (víly), Czech vidle).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?île/
• Hyphenation: vi?le

Noun

v?le f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (plural only) pitchfork

Declension

References

• “vile” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vidla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ì?l?/

Noun

víle f pl

1. pitchfork

Inflection

Further reading

• “vile”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

vile

1. Vi class inflected form and adverbial form of -le.

Venetian

Noun

vile

1. plural of vila

English

Etymology

From Middle English unspekable, equivalent to un- +? speakable.

Pronunciation

Adjective

unspeakable (comparative more unspeakable, superlative most unspeakable)

1. Incapable of being spoken or uttered

   Synonyms: unutterable, ineffable, inexpressible

   • 1855-1882, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, book xv,

     The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows.

2. Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
   • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, ch. 3,

     The miser will remember his hoard of gold, the robber his ill-gotten wealth, the angry and revengeful and merciless murderers their deeds of blood and violence in which they revelled, the impure and adulterous the unspeakable and filthy pleasures in which they delighted.

3. Extremely bad or objectionable.

   an unspeakable fool

   an unspeakable play

   • 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider,

     Yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape; and in its mouldy, disintegrating apparel an unspeakable quality that chilled me even more.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:indescribable

Derived terms

• unspeakably
• unspeakableness

Translations

References

• unspeakable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “unspeakable” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "unspeakable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
• "unspeakable" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• “unspeakable”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• "unspeakable" at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006).
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

Scots

Etymology

un- +? speak +? -able

Adjective

unspeakable (comparative mair unspeakable, superlative maist unspeakable)

1. unspeakable