Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Impossible to dispute; unquestionable: incontrovertible proof of the defendant's innocence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute or controversy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. necessarily or demonstrably true
- adj. impossible to deny or disprove
Etymologies
Examples
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Why is there so much passion about global warming, and why has the issue become so vexing that the American Physical Society, from which Dr. Giaever resigned a few months ago, refused the seemingly reasonable request by many of its members to remove the word "incontrovertible" from its description of a scientific issue?
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On the plus side, Mr. Bloomberg said he is most proud of what he called the "incontrovertible evidence" that public schools improved during his tenure.
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If theres ever been a time to use the word incontrovertible, its when were talking about evolution.
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Brian has various pieces of evidence for this, but the most incontrovertible is that the review says at one point Clegg offers tips on how to prepare a worm sandwich.
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Recognizing this responsibility, and assuming that at these periodical gatherings you have no time to bother with theories and abstractions, I intend to confine myself to facts-plain incontrovertible facts-or to statements based on actual experiences.
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OBAMA: I made a very narrow statement that I think is incontrovertible, which is if we've got a actionable intelligence then uh .... that there are high value Al Qaeda targets, that we should take them out.
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In the second paragraph, the first sentence states that the fact of climate warming is incontrovertible, which is true.
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One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one.
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(They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.)...
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Analysis of the lung tissue found what investigators described as incontrovertible evidence that the women had drowned, and because there were no signs of a struggle, the investigators concluded that they had almost certainly died accidentally.
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