Word Meanings - UNANSWERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Not answered; not replied; as, an unanswered letter. 2. Not refuted; as, an unanswered argument. 3. Not responded to in kind; unrequited; as, unanswered affection.
Related words: (words related to UNANSWERED)
- REFUTATORY
Tending tu refute; refuting. - RESPOND
1. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument. 2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, - AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - REPLICANT
One who replies. - ANSWER
1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to - LETTERER
One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters. - AFFECTIONED
1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak. - LETTERURE
Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer. - REPLICATION
The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea. 3. Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo. To hear the replication of your sounds. Shak. 4. A repetition; a copy. Farrar. Syn. -- Answer; response; reply; rejoinder. (more - UNANSWERABLE
Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv. - AFFECTIONATED
Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. - AFFECTIONATE
1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating - REPLICATE; REPLICATED
Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell. - LETTER
One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire. - REFUTABLE
Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous. - LETTERN
See LECTURN - RESPONDENCE; RESPONDENCY
The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an answering. A. Chalmers. The angelical soft trembling voice made To the instruments divine respondence meet. Spenser. - AFFECTIONAL
Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature. - ARGUMENTIZE
To argue or discuss. Wood. - ARGUMENTATIVE
1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator. - INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. - BLACK LETTER
The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type. - REARGUMENT
An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court. - CORRESPOND
1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds. - CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the - CORRESPONDINGLY
In a corresponding manner; conformably. - MISAFFECTION
An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall. - DISCORRESPONDENT
Incongruous. W. Montagu.