Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to dispute; unquestionable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute or controversy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not capable of being
denied ,challenged , ordisputed ; closed toquestioning .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective necessarily or demonstrably true
- adjective impossible to deny or disprove
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Three Mayors Share Stage to Reminisce Andrew Grossman 2011
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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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If theres ever been a time to use the word incontrovertible, its when were talking about evolution.
40 More Years James Carville with Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2009
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If theres ever been a time to use the word incontrovertible, its when were talking about evolution.
40 More Years James Carville with Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2009
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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.
Worms on toast Maxine 2008
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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.
Worms on toast Maxine 2008
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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.
April 2008 Maxine 2008
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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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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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