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unanswered

adjectiveattested in dialogue

That has not been answered or addressed.

adjective

  1. 1

    That has not been answered or addressed.

    The flashing light on the answering machine bore testimony to the unanswered call.

    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.

    The 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.

Etymology

From Middle English unansuered, unanswerd, equivalent to un- + answered.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).