incontestable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English contest

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English contestable

English incontestable

From in- + contestable.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

incontestable (comparative more incontestable, superlative most incontestable)

1. Not contestable; indisputable; certain.

   Synonym: incontrovertible

   That he was the greatest 100m runner of his generation was incontestable.

Derived terms

• incontestableness
• incontestability
• incontestably

Translations

Not contestable; indisputable

• Bulgarian: безспорен (bg) (bezsporen), неопровержим (bg) (neoproveržim)
• Danish: uomtvistelig (da), ubestridelig
• Dutch: ontegenzeglijk (nl), onbetwistbaar (nl)
• French: incontestable (fr)
• German: unanfechtbar (de), unbestreitbar (de)
• Hungarian: vitathatatlan (hu), tagadhatatlan (hu)
• Italian: incontestabile (it)
• Norwegian: uimotsigelig
• Polish: bezsporny (pl)
• Swedish: obestridlig (sv)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [iŋ.kun.təsˈtab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iŋ.kon.təsˈtab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iŋ.kon.tesˈta.ble]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [iŋ.kon.tesˈtab.ble]

Adjective

incontestable m or f (masculine and feminine plural incontestables)

1. incontestable

   Synonym: indiscutible

   Antonym: contestable

Further reading

• “incontestable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “incontestable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “incontestable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “incontestable”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

From in- +‎ contestable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kɔ̃.tɛs.tabl/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Adjective

incontestable (plural incontestables)

1. incontestable

   Synonym: indubitable

Derived terms

• incontestablement

Further reading

• “incontestable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inkontesˈtable/ [ĩŋ.kõn̪.t̪esˈt̪a.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧con‧tes‧ta‧ble

Adjective

incontestable m or f (masculine and feminine plural incontestables)

1. incontestable

Derived terms

• incontestabilidad
• incontestablemente

Further reading

• “incontestable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025