ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unanswerable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Unanswerable is an adjective meaning Not answerable; impossible to answer.

Meaning

Not answerable; impossible to answer.

More Meanings

  1. Impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive.
  2. Something that cannot be answered.

Example Sentences

The map is never an unanswerable argument in transportation.
These unanswerables are left open to the viewer's own construction by the sculptor.
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.

Word Forms

Synonyms for unanswerable

Depending on context, synonyms include answerless, indisputable, incontestable, incontestible.

Antonyms for unanswerable

Common opposites include answerable, disputable, inconclusive, refutable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include incontestible, incontestable, unanswered, answerless, nonanswerable, unaunswerable.

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