incontestable
/ɪnkənˈtɛstəb(ə)l
/adjective
Not able to be disputed.Does that not amount to the Minister making a conclusive and incontestable decision about a matter of law?...
- It is unequivocal and incontestable, and what has happened?
- If argument did not deliver incontestable conclusions, where was one to go?
Synonyms
incontrovertible, indisputable, undeniable, irrefutable, unassailable, beyond dispute, unquestionable, beyond question, indubitable, not in doubt, beyond doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt;
compelling, convincing, clinching, airtight, watertight, unarguable, undebatable, unanswerable, emphatic, categorical;
unequivocal, unambiguous, unmistakable, clear, clear-cut, certain, sure, definite, definitive, proven, demonstrable, self-evident, positive, decisive, conclusive, final, ultimate
rare inarguable, irrefragable, apodictic
Derivatives
incontestability
/ noun ...- The second concerned the incontestability of such law.
- In a sense, the evidence provided the bricks and mortar of the case; Huntley had threaded his thin and frantic line of defence around their incontestability.
- Another common caveat to incontestability clauses limits the period of disability.
incontestably
/ adverb ...- Dr Johnson is endlessly quoted here, because he is so incontestably right.
- The 31-year-old is incontestably the dazzling jewel in the crown of an otherwise less than ornate side.
- Never can I recall my sense of that ancient democratic truth being so emphatically, incontestably made flesh.
Origin
Late 17th century: from French, or from medieval Latin incontestabilis, from in- 'not' + contestabilis 'able to be called upon in witness', from the verb contestari (see contest).