unanswered
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈænsərd/
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sin respuesta
- Mrs. Lowry, there are still many unanswered questions in medicine.
- unanswered questions
- remain unanswered
- left unanswered
Dave from Milwaukee asks what unanswered questions keep you up at night?
- Dave from Milwaukee asks what unanswered questions keep you up at night?
- So we're left in this position today where that is largely unanswered.
- But from that unanswered cry, grace, just as soon as it arrives, it is gone.
- All those questions are left unanswered by these weird, very finely crafted denials by Dominion.
- In our next and final episode, we dig into the as yet unanswered questions that may affect the jury's determination on that score.
- So, you know, there's probably a few, you know, unanswered questions.
Examples
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Yes, I still have a lot of unanswered questions, but I'm happy with what I got.
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Well, we're very confused, and we have a lot of unanswered questions.
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My question on Monday went unanswered, so will the Prime Minister now say what is her Plan B?
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Some things are left unanswered.
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All this is very nice, but my question is still unanswered.
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Family members reported Williams missing yesterday after repeated calls to her cell phone went unanswered for three days.
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A fundamental question remains unanswered: How can the state best combine economic and political reforms?
Academic text (1994) -
As I got in the car, my head was throbbing with unanswered questions.
Fiction book (1999) -
A particularly important unanswered question is how early reading interventions affect children's mathematical development.
Academic text (2012) -
The detective was frustrated by the number of unanswered questions in the case.
Synonyms
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Feeling love for someone who does not love you back
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4.4
Not given back, answered or returned in feeling
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Not returned or shared by the other person
Not giving any reply and staying silent
How Answered
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Surface Forms
Morphology
unanswered = answered (transparent) = un + answer + ed
Formed by adding the negative prefix 'un-' to the past-participle/adjectival 'answered', yielding the straightforward meaning 'not answered'.
Etymology
The word unanswered is made of un- meaning 'not' and answer meaning 'reply', just like the common word answer for a spoken or written reply. So, unanswered describes something that has 'no reply', like a question, letter, or feeling that gets no response.