Irrefragable

Quick meaning: Irrefragable is an adjective meaning Which cannot be refuted; clearly right, incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable.

Meaning

Which cannot be refuted; clearly right, incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) Which cannot or should not be broken; indestructible.
2. (obsolete) Of a person: obstinate, stubborn.

Example Sentences

He knew what's what, and that's as high / As Metaphysick Wit can fly, / In School Divinity as able / As he that hight Irrefragable; […]

In this Kings reign flouriſhed in England, the Irrefragable Doctor Alexander de Hales, who was School-Maſter to the Angelic Dr. Thomas Aquinas.

Beſide, what methodicall artiſt would allow the encomium of the foxe in the prayſe of the aſſe, unleſſe I would proove by irrefragable demonſtration, that the falſe fox was a true aſſe: as I once heard a learned phyſician affirme, if a gooſe were a fox, he was a fox.

Bulfinch, a solicitor at Redcastle, came to him with irrefragable proofs of gross peculation on the part of the bailiff who managed the home farm which supplied the house and stables, and showed him that it was necessary to make a thorough investigation and change of system.

Word Forms

• irrefragible

Synonyms for irrefragable

Depending on context, synonyms include incontestable, indubitable, unanswerable, undeniable, unquestionable, inarguable.

Antonyms for irrefragable

Common opposites include contestable, controvertible, deniable, disputable, dubitable, questionable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include irrefutable, undeniable, ironclad, refragable, refutable, indubitable.

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