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  • adjective Giving no answer; unresponsive.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ answering

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Examples

  • Rivera favored him with a bitter, unanswering stare.

    The Mexican 2010

  • They are tributes to Beauty, unworthy to stand alone; yet perversely, in my mind, now at the end, I know not whether I mean the Thought for the Fancy—or the Fancy for the Thought, or why the book trails off to playing, rather than standing strong on unanswering fact.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • He did not glimpse the glory in her eyes, but stood looking outward toward the sea and sending rocket after rocket into the unanswering darkness.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • It drops as drops the night on southern seas—vast, sudden, unanswering.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • Thou — thou wilt breathe on the dead soul, and it shall arise from the unanswering sleep of death.

    Adam Bede 2004

  • For perhaps thirty seconds I called in vain, then there came an unanswering shout off to the left.

    Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004

  • He looked about him round his loud unanswering machines. —

    Ulysses 2003

  • Charming, seasmiling and unanswering Lydia on Lidwell smiled.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Rivera favored him with a bitter, unanswering stare.

    THE MEXICAN 1993

  • The upshot ... machines, eight human beings, immensities as impassable and unanswering as death.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

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