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unanswered

unanswered adjective: that has not been answered or addressed.

Adjective

unanswered (not comparable)

  1. That has not been answered or addressed.
    • The flashing light on the answering machine bore testimony to the unanswered call.
    • The timing of the incident raised the question, almost certainly destined to remain unanswered, of whether, having allowed the escapers to pass by unhindered, the culprit had waited specifically for the yellow jersey group before sowing his mischief.2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited

unanswered meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

unanswered in Hindi

अनुत्तरित

unanswered in Marathi

अनुत्तरित

unanswered in Urdu

بلاجواب

unanswered in Bengali

উত্তরহীন, অনুত্তরিত
More languagesFewer languages
unanswered in Telugu
సమాధానం లేనిది
unanswered in Malayalam
ഉത്തരമില്ലാത്ത, ഉത്തരം പറയാത്ത, മറുപടിയില്ലാത്ത, നിരുത്തര
unanswered in Gujarati
અનુત્તરિત
unanswered in Odia
ଅନୁତ୍ତରିତ, ଉତ୍ତରହୀନ
unanswered in Nepali
अनुत्तरित

Examples of unanswered in a sentence

  • Calls to police in Raoping, the county where the accident happened, went unanswered on Sunday.
  • By 6 am, Jodi hadn’t arrived yet, and Kuns filled in for her after a second call went unanswered.
  • Symptoms are sheer boredom while trying to read promags or fanzines, and allowing correspondence to pile up unanswered.

All 13 example sentences with unanswered

Origin of unanswered

From Middle English unansuered, unanswerd, equivalent to un- + answered.

Questions about unanswered

What does unanswered mean?
Unanswered means that has not been answered or addressed.
What is unanswered in Hindi?
Unanswered in Hindi is अनुत्तरित. See Unanswered meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is unanswered?
Unanswered is an adjective.

Words near unanswered in the dictionary

  1. unanswerability
  2. unanswerable
  3. unanswerableness
  4. unanswerables
  5. unanswerably
  6. unanswered
  7. unanswering
  8. unantagonistic
  9. unantagonistically
  10. unantagonizable
  11. unantagonized

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unanswered (page history and authors); unanswered (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unanswered (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unanswered (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unanswered (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unanswered (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unanswered (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unanswered (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unanswered (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unanswered (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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