unanswerable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that cannot be answered.
    — These unanswerables are left open to the viewer's own construction by the sculptor.
形容词 adj.
  1. Not answerable; impossible to answer.
  2. 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.

词形变化

more unanswerable comparative most unanswerable superlative unaunswerable alternative,obsolete,rare unanswerables plural unaunswerable alternative,obsolete,rare

词汇关系

相关词
answerless unanswerability unanswerableness unanswerably

词源

词源 1
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 *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English answerable
English unanswerable
From un- + answerable.
词源 2
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 *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English answerable
English unanswerable
From un- + answerable.
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