UNANSWERED


Meaning of UNANSWERED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

remain unclear/unchanged/unanswered etc

Many scientists remain unconvinced by the current evidence.

unanswered/open (= not dealt with )

At this point a key question remains unanswered.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

question

The space between them was filling up with unasked and unanswered questions .

These unanswered questions serve to highlight the practicalities which prescriptions of this kind ignore.

He went up to Rehoboth and repeated all the still unanswered questions .

There were still many unanswered questions , though these became progressively fewer, about the nature and extent of diplomatic immunities.

Future chroniclers may, indeed, describe the 1996 confrontation as the campaign of unanswered questions .

But three years on, there are still too many unanswered questions .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

go unanswered/unnoticed/unrewarded etc

And then it was dark and their entry into camp had gone unnoticed.

Feeding soldiers is not a glamorous business; for the most part it is an administrative function that goes unnoticed.

He had been humiliated Wednesday night and that could not go unanswered.

It might have gone unnoticed except that the dictionary is quite unequivocal about it.

That despite a troublesome physical problem: a wrist fracture incurred on his last tour that went unnoticed for months.

The success of the tests had not gone unnoticed at the Air Ministry.

This attempt to confuse the issue went unanswered, and Santa Anna continued his preparations to advance on the capital.

Underscoring this notion is the fact that other diseases continue to go unnoticed under the very nose of modern medicine.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But they left many questions unanswered .

However, although there have been tremendous developments in this field there remain many unanswered questions.

No issue was ignored, no charge unanswered .

Others of us have felt it as unanswered prayer.

The new openness expressed in the academic debates, and the latest school textbook, still leaves many issues unanswered .

There was just no way she could let that pass unanswered .

Who he was, where he had come from, why he was there-all these questions remained unanswered .

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