irrefragable

Meaning

1. (error-lua-exec) Which cannot be refuted; clearly right, incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable.
2. (archaic) Which cannot or should not be broken; indestructible.
3. (obsolete) Of a person: obstinate, stubborn.

Opposite of

contestable, controvertible, deniable, disputable, dubitable, questionable, refragable, refutable, firm, inelastic, inflexible, rigid, stiff, unbendable

Synonyms

incontestable

indisputable

incontrovertible

undeniable

inflexible

inviolable

irrefutable

irresistible

obstinate

stubborn

apodictic

undoubted

challenged

indestructible

indubitable

Translations

unwiderlegbar

inoppugnabile

incontrovertible

incontournable

incontestabile

incontrovertibile

indisputabile

demonstrável

incontrovertible

aksi iddia edilemez

inkâr edilemez

غير قابل للدحض

yadsınamaz

مسلم

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪˈɹɛfɹəɡəb(ə)l/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin irrefrāgābilis (“irrefragable”) + English -able (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘able or fit to be done’). Irrefrāgābilis is derived from Latin ir- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + refrāgārī + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon); while refrāgārī is the present active infinitive of refrāgor (“to oppose, resist; to gainsay, thwart”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + fragor (“a breaking, shattering; a crash; din, uproar”) (from frangō (“to break, shatter”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”))), formed as an antonym of suffrāgōr, the first-person singular present passive indicative of suffrāgō (“to support; to vote for”).