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Definition of incontestable in English: incontestableadjective ɪnkənˈtɛstəb(ə)lˌɪnkənˈtɛstəb(ə)l Not able to be disputed. Example sentencesExamples - Does that not amount to the Minister making a conclusive and incontestable decision about a matter of law?
- Together, the president and vice-president (or just ‘the presidency’) would be able to act without fear or favour, and would possess an incontestable mandate.
- I'm the new owner of this house, with clear and incontestable title.
- But it's incontestable that if it was improved, people would stay longer and spend more money.
- The rationale for the government's proposed change, however, is incontestable.
- Its benefits have been so incontestable that in the five millennia since the advent of the written word numerous poets and writers have extolled its virtues.
- If argument did not deliver incontestable conclusions, where was one to go?
- He is wrong in believing that what is contestable is ‘knowledge’, and in failing to acknowledge that much knowledge is incontestable.
- Nevertheless, that soccer as a global phenomenon has yet to eradicate what was once called ‘The English Disease’ remains incontestable.
- Regardless of whether you believe global warming to be a threat to the survival of humanity or simply the product of another wave in the world's oscillating climate, the problem of pollution remains incontestable.
- It is unequivocal and incontestable, and what has happened?
- This much is incontestable - in the last decade (I won't go further back) we have seen the emergence in Ireland of what Ms Flynn rightly described as a ‘tabloid culture’.
- They were all going down together, into the dark… Just as soon as enough major players decided to contest the incontestable, and put the simulations to the audit of war.
- And I also think it is incontestable that Protestantism has been an overwhelming influence in creating the modern world.
- Dispute the numbers, but the big picture is incontestable.
- There are certain incontestable themes in his work.
- His failure to take consistent foreign policy positions, though more recent, is incontestable.
- If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God's number), there is an incontestable argument that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text.
- Now, there are some interesting restrictions on English reduplication, but the plain fact of it is incontestable (at least in every North American dialect I've ever come across).
- The Press Complaints Commission rules were scrupulously observed; the only minor shown had his face obscured; and the story was of incontestable public interest.
Synonyms incontrovertible, indisputable, undeniable, irrefutable, unassailable, beyond dispute, unquestionable, beyond question, indubitable, not in doubt, beyond doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt compelling, convincing, clinching, airtight, watertight, unarguable, undebatable, unanswerable, emphatic, categorical unequivocal, unambiguous, unmistakable, clear, clear-cut, certain, sure, definite, definitive, proven, demonstrable, self-evident, positive, decisive, conclusive, final, ultimate rare inarguable, irrefragable, apodictic
Derivatives nounɪnkəntɛstəˈbɪlɪtiˌɪnkənˌtɛstəˈbɪlədi The conclusion concerning incontestability of individual long term care insurance policies depends on whether or not the policy is tax qualified for Federal income tax purposes. Example sentencesExamples - The second concerned the incontestability of such law.
- Registrant must submit an affidavit of continuing use between the fifth and sixth anniversary of registration, and may submit an affidavit of incontestability at the same time
- In a sense, the evidence provided the bricks and mortar of the case; Huntley had threaded his thin and frantic line of defence around their incontestability.
- Another common caveat to incontestability clauses limits the period of disability.
adverb ɪnkənˈtɛstəbliˌɪnkənˈtɛstəbli He simply trumped it six days later with his incontestably magnificent fifth symphony. Example sentencesExamples - Dr Johnson is endlessly quoted here, because he is so incontestably right.
- Seligman gets his critique under way with a sweeping indictment of the doctrine of natural rights, which he claims has been proved incontestably by modern jurisprudence and political philosophy to be mistaken.
- The 31-year-old is incontestably the dazzling jewel in the crown of an otherwise less than ornate side.
- Never can I recall my sense of that ancient democratic truth being so emphatically, incontestably made flesh.
Origin Late 17th century: from French, or from medieval Latin incontestabilis, from in- 'not' + contestabilis 'able to be called upon in witness', from the verb contestari (see contest). Definition of incontestable in US English: incontestableadjectiveˌinkənˈtestəb(ə)lˌɪnkənˈtɛstəb(ə)l Not able to be disputed. Example sentencesExamples - The rationale for the government's proposed change, however, is incontestable.
- If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God's number), there is an incontestable argument that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text.
- And I also think it is incontestable that Protestantism has been an overwhelming influence in creating the modern world.
- His failure to take consistent foreign policy positions, though more recent, is incontestable.
- I'm the new owner of this house, with clear and incontestable title.
- Together, the president and vice-president (or just ‘the presidency’) would be able to act without fear or favour, and would possess an incontestable mandate.
- Does that not amount to the Minister making a conclusive and incontestable decision about a matter of law?
- It is unequivocal and incontestable, and what has happened?
- He is wrong in believing that what is contestable is ‘knowledge’, and in failing to acknowledge that much knowledge is incontestable.
- Dispute the numbers, but the big picture is incontestable.
- They were all going down together, into the dark… Just as soon as enough major players decided to contest the incontestable, and put the simulations to the audit of war.
- Its benefits have been so incontestable that in the five millennia since the advent of the written word numerous poets and writers have extolled its virtues.
- There are certain incontestable themes in his work.
- Regardless of whether you believe global warming to be a threat to the survival of humanity or simply the product of another wave in the world's oscillating climate, the problem of pollution remains incontestable.
- Nevertheless, that soccer as a global phenomenon has yet to eradicate what was once called ‘The English Disease’ remains incontestable.
- This much is incontestable - in the last decade (I won't go further back) we have seen the emergence in Ireland of what Ms Flynn rightly described as a ‘tabloid culture’.
- If argument did not deliver incontestable conclusions, where was one to go?
- Now, there are some interesting restrictions on English reduplication, but the plain fact of it is incontestable (at least in every North American dialect I've ever come across).
- But it's incontestable that if it was improved, people would stay longer and spend more money.
- The Press Complaints Commission rules were scrupulously observed; the only minor shown had his face obscured; and the story was of incontestable public interest.
Synonyms incontrovertible, indisputable, undeniable, irrefutable, unassailable, beyond dispute, unquestionable, beyond question, indubitable, not in doubt, beyond doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt
Origin Late 17th century: from French, or from medieval Latin incontestabilis, from in- ‘not’ + contestabilis ‘able to be called upon in witness’, from the verb contestari (see contest). |