Meanings
- not comparableThat has not been answered or addressed.
The flashing light on the answering machine bore testimony to the unanswered call.
2 more examples
The timing of the incident raised the question, almost certainly destined to remain unanswered, of whether, having allowed the escapers to pass by unhindered, the culprit had waited specifically for the yellow jersey group before sowing his mischief.
2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian UnlimitedThe Helong city government said a 55-year-old man surnamed Zhao, his 26-year-old daughter and another man aged 67 were killed Saturday. It said in a statement that police from the provincial to the local levels were investigating.[…] Calls to Helong city and Yanbian prefecture government spokesmen rang unanswered on Thursday.
2015 April 30, Christopher Bodeen, “3 killed in Chinese town where North Koreans blamed in past”, in AP News, archived from the original on 26 May 2022
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot returned in kind
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishunansuered
- Englishunanswered
From Middle English unansuered, unanswerd, equivalent to un- + answered.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Danish ubesvaret
- ubesvaretnot answered
German unbeantwortet, unerwidert
- unbeantwortetnot answered
- unerwidertnot answered
Norwegian Bokmål ubesvart
- ubesvartnot answered
Swedish obesvarad
- obesvaradnot answered
Cite this entry
unanswered. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unanswered
“unanswered.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unanswered. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unanswered,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unanswered.
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