unanswerable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   impossible to answer

   An unanswerable argument.

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Something that cannot be answered.

   These unanswerables are left open to the viewer's own construction by the sculptor.

4. 4
   adj

   Not answerable; impossible to answer.

From un- + answerable.

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