Unanswerable vs Palpable - What's the difference?
unanswerable | palpable | Related terms |
Not answerable; impossible to answer.
Impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive.
Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
* (William Shakespeare), Hamlet , act 5, sc. 2:
* 1838 , (Edgar Allan Poe), "Ligeia":
* 1894 , (Bret Harte), "The Heir of the McHulishes" in A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories :
Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
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, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,
* 1913 , (Sax Rohmer), The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu ch. 24:
* 1916 , (Kathleen Norris), The Heart of Rachael , ch. 7:
(medicine) That can be detected by palpation.
Unanswerable is a related term of palpable.
As adjectives the difference between unanswerable and palpable
is that unanswerable is not answerable; impossible to answer while palpable is capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.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
* *palpable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Osric: A hit, a very palpable hit.
- I had felt that some palpable although invisible object had passed lightly by my person.
- The next morning the fog had given way to a palpable , horizontally driving rain.
- Her voice, her palpable agitation, prepared us for something extraordinary.
- No use in raging, in reasoning, in arguing. No use in setting forth the facts, the palpable right and wrong.