UNANSWERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unanswered mean? 

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

1. not returned in kind

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNANSWERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not returned in kind

Synonyms:

unanswered; unreciprocated; unrequited

Context example:

unrequited (unanswered) love

Similar:

nonreciprocal (not reciprocal)

 Context examples 

Such a conclusion could not pass unanswered by Mrs. Weston.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He had done, and was unanswered.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

For a few moments she was unanswered.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"There are still many unanswered questions relating to the cause, incidence and prevalence of long-term effects of head trauma such as CTE," the statement read.

(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)

For neuroscientists, human hearing is a process full of unanswered questions.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

The appeal was unanswered.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)