Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without an answer; having no answer to give.
- Unanswered: as, answerless prayers.
- Containing no sufficient or satisfactory answer; offering no substantial reply, while professing to do so.
- Incapable of being answered; unanswerable: as, an answerless question, argument, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no answer, or impossible to be answered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having or producing no
answer . - adjective Not
capable of beinganswered ;unanswerable .
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Examples
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It is right now, every year, that I wonder what I'm doing, what we're doing, the answerless "what's it all about" questions that must occur to astronauts who have been in the space station too long.
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It is right now, every year, that I wonder what I'm doing, what we're doing, the answerless "what's it all about" questions that must occur to astronauts who have been in the space station too long.
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Every now and then things seem brighter and someone waves their hand in front of my face to wake me up, but I keep ending up here burying myself in answerless questions.
robitessin Diary Entry robitessin 2008
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Throughout my entire disassociated life I've asked myself a barrage of answerless questions.
robitessin Diary Entry robitessin 2008
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If you wink enough nobody will notice your answerless gestures, dog-gone-it!
Beat 360° 10/3/08 2008
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For almost 6 hours he nailed all of his supporters in the National Assembly, the diplomatic corps, a large group of Venezuelan public servants and soldiers who probably had better things to do such as repair highways than to listen the answerless rant of Chavez, a long string of platitudes, accusations, bad jokes and assorted vulgarities.
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For almost 6 hours he nailed all of his supporters in the National Assembly, the diplomatic corps, a large group of Venezuelan public servants and soldiers who probably had better things to do such as repair highways than to listen the answerless rant of Chavez, a long string of platitudes, accusations, bad jokes and assorted vulgarities.
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With nonsensical answerless riddles, and preposterous double-speak as the daily party line.
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With nonsensical answerless riddles, and preposterous double-speak as the daily party line.
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The stars on the harp's face, enigmatic, answerless, met his gaze.
Harpist in the Wind McKillip, Patricia A. 1979
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