UNANSWERABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unanswerable mean? 

• UNANSWERABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNANSWERABLE has 1 sense:

1. impossible to answer

  Familiarity information: UNANSWERABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNANSWERABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impossible to answer

Context example:

an unanswerable argument

Similar:

incontestable; incontestible (incapable of being contested or disputed)

 Context examples 

He's getting great bumps over his eyes, and learning to ask the most unanswerable questions.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And in his own eyes was love; and love was unanswerable.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The silence of the lady proved it to be unanswerable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“Walk!” repeated Sir Thomas, in a tone of most unanswerable dignity, and coming farther into the room.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To the possibility of motives unanswerable in themselves, though unavoidably secret for a while?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Micawber's conviction that her arguments were unanswerable, gave a moral elevation to her tone which I think I had never heard in it before.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After discharging his conscience on that head, he proceeded to inform them, with many rapturous expressions, of his happiness in having obtained the affection of their amiable neighbour, Miss Lucas, and then explained that it was merely with the view of enjoying her society that he had been so ready to close with their kind wish of seeing him again at Longbourn, whither he hoped to be able to return on Monday fortnight; for Lady Catherine, he added, so heartily approved his marriage, that she wished it to take place as soon as possible, which he trusted would be an unanswerable argument with his amiable Charlotte to name an early day for making him the happiest of men.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Your gallantry is really unanswerable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

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 Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have three unanswerable reasons for disliking Colonel Brandon; he threatened me with rain when I wanted it to be fine; he has found fault with the hanging of my curricle, and I cannot persuade him to buy my brown mare.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)