irrefragable

See also: irréfragable

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin irrefrāgābilis, from refrāgor (“oppose, contest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɛfɹəɡəb(ə)l/

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Adjective

irrefragable (comparative more irrefragable, superlative most irrefragable)

1. Which cannot be refuted; indisputable, clearly right, incontrovertible. [from 16th c.]
   • 1885, Charlotte M. Yonge, Nuttie's Father, ch. 20:

     Bulfinch, a solicitor at Redcastle, came to him with irrefragable proofs of gross peculation on the part of the bailiff.

   • 1913, Jack London, John Barleycorn, ch. 19:

     [W]e didn't. That is the irrefragable fact. We didn't.

   • 2001 Jan. 14, Harold Evans, "Bookend: White House Book Club," New York Times (retrieved 18 Nov 2012):

     Lionel Trilling has cautioned us that an idea derived from reading is not a unitary, irrefragable thing but something modified in its transmission.

Synonyms

• (which cannot be refuted): incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, unanswerable, undeniable, unquestionable

Antonyms

• refragable

Related terms

• irrefragability
• irrefragably

 

Translations

indisputable, clearly right

• Bulgarian: безспорен (bg) (bezsporen), неоспорим (bg) (neosporim)
• Maori: whakaioio
• Portuguese: irrefragável (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: бесспо́рный (ru) m (besspórnyj), неопровержи́мый (ru) m (neoproveržímyj), неоспори́мый (ru) m (neosporímyj)
• Spanish: irrefragrable