unanswerable
UK/ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/
unanswerable adjective: not answerable; impossible to answer.
Adjective
unanswerable (comparative more unanswerable, superlative most unanswerable)
- Not answerable; impossible to answer.
- Synonyms:
- answerless
- Antonyms:
- answerable
- Impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive.
- 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.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
- The map is never an unanswerable argument in transportation.1926, Great Britain Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Economic Series, Issues 1-6, H.M. Stationery Office, page 75
- Synonyms:
- indisputable
- Antonyms:
- disputable, inconclusive, refutable
Noun
unanswerable (plural unanswerables)
- Something that cannot be answered.
- These unanswerables are left open to the viewer's own construction by the sculptor.2005, Anupam Nagar, Recritiquing John Keats, page 55
unanswerable meaning in Urdu and Kannada
unanswerable in Urdu
- اکاٹ, بےجواب, ناقابل جواب
unanswerable in Kannada
- ಉತ್ತರ ಕೊಡಲಾಗದ, ಪ್ರತಿ ಹೇಳಲಾಗದ, ಸಮಾಧಾನದ, ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯೆ ಇಲ್ಲದ, ಮಾರ್ನುಡಿಯಲಾಗದ
Synonyms of unanswerable
Antonyms
Forms of unanswerable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more unanswerable |
| superlative | most unanswerable |
| alternative form (obsolete, rare) | unaunswerable |
| Noun | |
| plural | unanswerables |
Origin of unanswerable
From un- + answerable.
Questions about unanswerable
- What does unanswerable mean?
- Unanswerable means not answerable; impossible to answer.
- What is unanswerable in Urdu?
- Unanswerable in Urdu is اکاٹ, بےجواب, ناقابل جواب. See Unanswerable meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is unanswerable?
- Unanswerable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce unanswerable?
- Unanswerable is pronounced /ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/ (UK).
Words near unanswerable in the dictionary
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