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 being answered; unanswerable.

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Examples

  • 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.

    a patient etherised upon a table 2009

  • 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.

    hie them forth when church bells ring 2009

  • 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

  • Throughout my entire disassociated life I've asked myself a barrage of answerless questions.

    robitessin Diary Entry robitessin 2008

  • If you wink enough nobody will notice your answerless gestures, dog-gone-it!

    Beat 360° 10/3/08 2008

  • 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.

    The Church, in Chile and in Venezuela 2006

  • 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.

    01/15/2006 - 01/22/2006 2006

  • With nonsensical answerless riddles, and preposterous double-speak as the daily party line.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bush as the 'Mad Hatter' 2006

  • With nonsensical answerless riddles, and preposterous double-speak as the daily party line.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bush as the 'Mad Hatter' 2006

  • The stars on the harp's face, enigmatic, answerless, met his gaze.

    Harpist in the Wind McKillip, Patricia A. 1979

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