Unanswerable vs Obvious - What's the difference?
unanswerable | obvious | Related terms |
Not answerable; impossible to answer.
Impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive.
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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Unanswerable is a related term of obvious.
As adjectives the difference between unanswerable and obvious
is that unanswerable is not answerable; impossible to answer while obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.As a noun unanswerable
is something that cannot be answered.unanswerable
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Alternative forms
* unaunswerable (qualifier)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (not answerable) answerless * (impossible to dispute) indisputableAntonyms
* (not answerable) answerable * (impossible to dispute) disputable, refutable, inconclusiveReferences
* *obvious
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Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}