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UNIMPEACHABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unimpeachable mean?
• UNIMPEACHABLE (adjective)
The adjective UNIMPEACHABLE has 3 senses:
1. beyond doubt or reproach
2. free of guilt; not subject to blame
3. completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach
Familiarity information: UNIMPEACHABLE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beyond doubt or reproach
Context example:
an unimpeachable source
Similar:
unquestionable (incapable of being questioned)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Free of guilt; not subject to blame
Synonyms:
blameless; inculpable; irreproachable; unimpeachable
Context example:
an unimpeachable reputation
Similar:
clean-handed; guiltless; innocent (free from evil or guilt)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach
Synonyms:
unexceptionable; unimpeachable
Context example:
a judge's ethics should be unexceptionable
Similar:
acceptable (worthy of acceptance or satisfactory)
Context examples
One of our most lucrative means of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security is unimpeachable.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oh! his character is unimpeachable, I suppose.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"After all, you have but the wisdom of your temperament, and the wisdom of my temperament is just as unimpeachable as yours."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The roughs had also fled at the appearance of Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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