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INCONTROVERTIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incontrovertible mean?
• INCONTROVERTIBLE (adjective)
The adjective INCONTROVERTIBLE has 2 senses:
1. impossible to deny or disprove
2. necessarily or demonstrably true
Familiarity information: INCONTROVERTIBLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INCONTROVERTIBLE (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impossible to deny or disprove
Synonyms:
incontrovertible; irrefutable; positive
Context example:
an irrefutable argument
Similar:
undeniable (not possible to deny)
Derivation:
incontrovertibility; incontrovertibleness (the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Necessarily or demonstrably true
Synonyms:
demonstrable; incontrovertible
Context example:
demonstrable truths
Similar:
incontestable; incontestible (incapable of being contested or disputed)
Derivation:
incontrovertibleness (the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about)
Context examples
"That also is incontrovertible," Messner agreed. "When three bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time, one must get out."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
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