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UK
/ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəbəl/
]
[ US /ˌəˈnænsɝəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌəˈnænsɝəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
impossible to answer
an unanswerable argument
How To Use unanswerable In A Sentence
- He began to write rambling letters about black holes and plagued his mother with unanswerable questions.
- We present them the example of France as an unanswerable proof that one great nation can maintain bimetallism, and that by maintaining it she escaped the worst evils that have affected the monometallic countries, and assured for herself an extraordinary progress and prosperity. If Not Silver, What?
- The knockout blows came from finding'the unanswerable question '. Times, Sunday Times
- There were baffling, unanswerable teasers such as: why is a left foot either ‘trusty’ or ‘educated’ but a right foot is neither?
- Rather, it presents a collection of ideas and findings by people who have been grappling with big, unanswerable questions all their lives.
- It is rational, but scientifically unanswerable and hence uninteresting.
- Now, I understand not hereby those doctrinal reproofs when, in the dispensation of that word of grace and truth which is "profitable for correction and reproof," 2 Tim.iii. 16, they speak, and exhort, and "rebuke" the sins of men "with all authority," Tit.ii. 15; but the occasional application of the word unto individual persons, upon their unanswerableness in any thing unto the truth wherein they have been instructed. The Sermons of John Owen
- The earlier versions are famously protracted and meditative, pondering unanswerable questions concerning life, death and desire.
- The case for better public transport is unanswerable .
- With his current superb form, he presents an unanswerable case for selection in the team.