adv
Meaning 1
Without question; beyond doubt; indubitably.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unquestionably
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US: /ʌnˈkwɛs.t͡ʃən.ə.bli/
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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/ʌnˈkwes.t͡ʃən.ə.blɪ/ older RP
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CMU ARPABET: AH0 N K W EH1 S CH AH0 N AH0 B L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
OK, right-on
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
without question and beyond doubt
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- it was decidedly too expensive
- she told him off in spades
- by all odds they should win
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: decidedly, emphatically, definitely, in spades, by all odds
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 4
without question
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Fred Winter is unquestionably the jockey to follow
- they hired unimpeachably first-rate faculty members
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unimpeachably
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From unquestionable + -ly or un- + question + -ably.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: أَلاَ (ʔala:/) — without doubt
- Catalan: indubtablement — without doubt
- Chinese Mandarin: 毫無疑問 /毫无疑问 (háowúyíwèn) — without doubt
- Finnish: kiistatta — without doubt
- Finnish: kiistattomasti — without doubt
- French: indubitablement — without doubt
- French: sans l'ombre d'un doute — without doubt
- Greek: αναμφισβήτητα (anamfisvítita) — without doubt
- Greek: ασυζητητί (asyzitití) — without doubt
- Greek: αναντίρρητα (anantírrita) — without doubt
- Greek: αναμφίβολα (anamfívola) — without doubt
- Hungarian: kétségtelenül — without doubt
- Hungarian: kétségkívül — without doubt
- Hungarian: kétségbevonhatatlanul — without doubt
- Hungarian: tagadhatatlanul — without doubt
- Hungarian: vitathatatlanul — without doubt
- Navajo: doo kááʼgóó — without doubt
- Polish: bezapelacyjnie — without doubt
- Polish: bezdyskusyjnie — without doubt
- Russian: бесспо́рно (besspórno) — without doubt
- Russian: несомне́нно (nesomnénno) — without doubt
- Spanish: indudablemente — without doubt
- Swedish: otvivelaktigt — without doubt
- Swedish: utan tvivel — without doubt
- Swedish: obestridligen — without doubt
- Turkish: kuşkusuz — without doubt
- Turkish: şüphesiz — without doubt
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