unanswerable
nounEtymology From un- + answerable.
1
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
adjUK /ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/
Etymology From un- + answerable.
1
Not answerable; impossible to answer.
2
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:
- Related terms
- answerless, unanswerability, unanswerableness, unanswerably