UNQUESTIONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unquestionable mean? 

• UNQUESTIONABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNQUESTIONABLE has 3 senses:

1. incapable of being questioned

2. not counterfeit or copied

3. not open to question

  Familiarity information: UNQUESTIONABLE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNQUESTIONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incapable of being questioned

Context example:

unquestionable authority

Similar:

acknowledged (generally accepted)

beyond doubt; indubitable (too obvious to be doubted)

for sure (not open to doubt)

mathematical (beyond question)

unimpeachable (beyond doubt or reproach)

Also:

incontestable; incontestible (incapable of being contested or disputed)

undeniable (not possible to deny)

Antonym:

questionable (subject to question)

Derivation:

unquestionability; unquestionableness (the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not counterfeit or copied

Synonyms:

authentic; bona fide; unquestionable; veritable

Context example:

photographs taken in a veritable bull ring

Similar:

echt; genuine (not fake or counterfeit)

Derivation:

unquestionableness (the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not open to question

Context example:

an unquestionable (or unequivocal) loss of prestige

Similar:

unambiguous; unequivocal; univocal (admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion)

Derivation:

unquestionableness (the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt)

 Context examples 

I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an entirely inadequate fashion, I have endeavoured to give some account of my strange experiences in his company from the chance which first brought us together at the period of the Study in Scarlet, up to the time of his interference in the matter of the Naval Treaty—an interference which had the unquestionable effect of preventing a serious international complication.

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

If our brother Francis's wife had found it convenient in her lifetime (though she had an unquestionable right to act as she thought best) to invite the family to her dinner-table, we might have known our brother Francis's child better at the present moment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Its object was unquestionable; and two moments were enough to start the probability of its being merely to give her notice that they should be in Portsmouth that very day, and to throw her into all the agitation of doubting what she ought to do in such a case.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She wanted her life shaped now, immediately—and the decision must be made by some force—of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality—that was close at hand.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)