Unanswerable

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  • adjective. Impossible to answer or refute; incontrovertible.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not to be satisfactorily answered; not susceptible of refutation: as, an unanswerable argument.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not answerable; impossible to answer.
  • adjective. Impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive.
  • noun. Something that cannot be answered.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. impossible to answer
  • Word Usage
    "Burke, Porson, Dr. Warburton, and Dr. Farmer, pronounced this piece of criticism convincing and unanswerable; but Dr. Johnson and Steevens would not be convinced, and, moreover, have contrived to answer the _unanswerable_."
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