unanswerable
/ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not answerable; impossible to answer.
adj
Impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The map is never an unanswerable argument in transportation."
- "These unanswerables are left open to the viewer's own construction by the sculptor."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English answer Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English answerable English unanswerable From un- + answerable.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/
Inflected Forms
more unanswerable (comparative)
most unanswerable (superlative)
unaunswerable (alternative, obsolete)
unanswerables (plural)