unanswerable
English
Alternative forms
- unaunswerable (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
un- + answerable
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/
Audio (Mid-Atlantic) (file)
Adjective
unanswerable (comparative more unanswerable, superlative most unanswerable)
- Not answerable; impossible to answer.
- Synonym: answerless
- Antonym: answerable
- Impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- If I have not said much about it before, it was, of course, that the Professor's earnest desire was that no possible rumor of the unanswerable argument which we carried should be allowed to leak out until the moment came when his enemies were to be confuted.
- Synonym: indisputable
- Antonyms: disputable, inconclusive, refutable
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Related terms
Translations
not answerable; impossible to answer
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impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive
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References
- “unanswerable”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- unanswerable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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