(a.) Having no answer, or impossible to be answered.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his initial statement defending the choice to include the film, De Niro admitted that he had a personal stake in the film: “Grace and I have a child with autism and we believe it is critical that all of the issues surrounding the causes of autism be openly discussed and examined.” He went on to say that the festival was “a platform, not a judge” – as only a parent holding out every ounce of hope for answers to a resolutely answerless affliction would.
Unanswerable
Definition:
(a.) Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) An array of polling proves that the 50p rate is unanswerably popular: at the time it was introduced, Populus reckoned that 57% of people were in favour, as against only 22% against; and a subsequent poll by YouGov found that keeping the 50p rate would appeal to 88% of uncommitted voters.
(2) Although consultation, as an activity for intervention, has achieved considerable popularity among human service professionals and figures prominently in current federal mental health legislation, a basic question still unanswerable is, "Does it work?"
(3) Bruce Crawford, the cabinet secretary for strategy in the Scottish government, said it had received an "unanswerable mandate" to stage the referendum at a time of its choosing, "while the Lib Dems lost every … seat in mainland Scotland".
(4) But voters in 31 states awarded Trump outright victory, and he steadily amassed an unanswerable lead.
(5) Right from the off, when the chancellor's wheeze emerged on the Tory conference platform, it has been sustained by two rhetorical questions that sound unanswerable – why should anyone not working bring in more than the typical £26,000 wage?
(6) If we can hit the commission's trajectory simply by staying in neutral then the case for stepping up a gear and aiming for 30% is now unanswerable."
(7) The movie might not have continued to inspire this level of devotion without its central, unanswerable mystery about the cause of the time loop; other Hollywood fantasies provide explanations for their supernatural events.
(8) From that perspective, the case for GM crops is unanswerable.
(9) Long enough for me to realise that was an unanswerable, probably insulting question.
(10) JR: I suppose the big question at this point – and maybe it's an unanswerable question – is this: would the voices have got so aggressive and frightening if you'd never told your friend, and never seen that psychiatrist, and never been diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'?
(11) "The case is now unanswerable," said Ruth Davis, chief policy adviser at Greenpeace .
(12) Throw in cuts to in-work benefits, attacks on pensions and VAT rises, and the rationale for workers to fight back is surely unanswerable.
(13) He talked of the awful uncertainty of hindsight; of the unanswerable question of whether they, his parents, could have done more to help; whether should they have intervened or left Martin, by then in his 20s, to make his own decisions.
(14) "With this resignation the argument for a general election has gone from being strong and powerful to completely unanswerable.
(15) Every question they asked of City was unanswerable during those opening 45 minutes.
(16) Like the poet said: “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” Really important photographs tell us something that we didn’t know, or didn’t want to know, or wish were not true, in urgent, unanswerable images.
(17) A cousin in Balham introduced him to jazz for the first time – the "unanswerable sound", he called it.
(18) Whether CEA saves lives is probably unanswerable, but as a skin cover it may reduce incidence of burn wound sepsis.
(19) And a spokesperson for the Sham Legion said: “The question about De Mistura’s ceasefire plan is unanswerable at the moment because of the ongoing battles in Aleppo Northern Countryside.
(20) I confess I don't dare guess at the answer to that, and it's probably unanswerable, but it's a key question to get right, for the sake of the future.