Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to contest; unquestionable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not contestable; not admitting of dispute or debate; too clear to be controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable.
- Synonyms Indisputable, irrefragable, undeniable, unquestionable, indubitable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not contestable; not to be disputed; that cannot be called in question or controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
contestable ;indisputable ;certain ;incontrovertible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not open to question; obviously true
- adjective incapable of being contested or disputed
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Examples
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Every thing concurred to signalize this, that God's name (that is, his incontestable sovereignty, his irresistible power, and his inflexible justice) might be declared throughout all the earth, not only to all places, but through all ages while the earth remains.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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Four days ago Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari recalled the incontestable fact that "The terrorists of today were the heroes of yesteryear until 9/11 occurred ...."
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Complete is a surrogate superlative, the latest tactic, a piece of discursive dexterity in the sometimes tedious Messi or Ronaldo debate -- presented like it was some kind of incontestable fact.
SI.com 2010
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The plaintiffs are claiming the the Bush Administration is ignoring "incontestable" evidence of global warming by instituting more stringent carbon emissions on power companies generating plants.
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He added that they were within their rights to do so because they have an "incontestable" registered trademark.
EphBlog 2009
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Peter Holder, 44, confessed to the attempted rape in the face of "incontestable" DNA evidence.
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He added that they were within their rights to do so because they have an "incontestable" registered trademark.
unknown title 2009
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He added that they were within their rights to do so because they have an "incontestable" registered trademark.
unknown title 2009
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"incontestable" second position and was the only "threat" to complete power domination by the ANC.
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The show's creator, Marc Cherry, appeared to admit one of the incontestable truths about TV — "The only thing harder than creating a hit show is knowing when to end it" — saying he was afraid the show would "drift away into nothing" if allowed to continue indefinitely.
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