unanswerable

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   impossible to answer

   “an unanswerable argument”

   Similarincontestable

Questions about unanswerable

What does unanswerable mean?

unanswerable means "impossible to answer".

How many syllables are in unanswerable?

unanswerable has 5 syllables: un-an-swe-ra-ble. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˌʌˈnænsɚəbəl/.

Is unanswerable a common word?

unanswerable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.