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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
incontrovertible
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
conclusive/incontrovertible/irrefutable evidence (=very strong evidence which cannot be disproved)
▪ We need irrefutable evidence before making an arrest.
▪ The government claims it has conclusive evidence of the country’s nuclear weapons programme.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
evidence
▪ It was far from incontrovertible evidence of what Gloria had suggested and Neil had confirmed.
▪ If the hearings uncover some incontrovertible evidence of corruption he could look like a defender of the indefensible.
▪ And without incontrovertible evidence that Leila was dead, would it ever be watertight enough?
▪ It might well be that Chesnais had incontrovertible evidence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There is incontrovertible evidence that Wallenberg did not die in 1947.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although this has been argued over for fifty years, the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible.
▪ For this was reality, as durable as it was crucial, as incontrovertible as it was incomprehensible.
▪ If the hearings uncover some incontrovertible evidence of corruption he could look like a defender of the indefensible.
▪ It is incontrovertible that there has been long-continued subsidence on many oceanic atolls.
▪ It was far from incontrovertible evidence of what Gloria had suggested and Neil had confirmed.
▪ That Husameddin, perhaps unluckily, has wholly misrepresented Ibn Hajar is incontrovertible, however.
▪ The case for following the Western example of reducing the costly standing army by building a reserve of trained men became incontrovertible.
▪ The evidence that the television arrangements were bungled is incontrovertible.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incontrovertible

Incontrovertible \In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble\, a. Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable.
--Sir T. Browne. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incontrovertible

1640s, from in- (1) "not" + controvertible (see controvert). Related: Incontrovertibly.

Wiktionary
incontrovertible

a. Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.

WordNet
incontrovertible
  1. adj. impossible to deny or disprove; "incontrovertible proof of the defendant's innocence"; "proof positive"; "an irrefutable argument" [syn: irrefutable, positive]

  2. necessarily or demonstrably true; "demonstrable truths" [syn: demonstrable]

Usage examples of "incontrovertible".

The eyes relished darkness, conjuring up hints of what it might contain, but the borderlight flooded his vision with incontrovertible blankness.

Testimony here assumes its broadest connotation as the exemplary affirmation of incontrovertible human and national values.

Norton could never understand how men with advanced scientific and technical training could possibly believe some of the things he had heard Christers state as incontrovertible facts.

It is incontrovertible proof that military dogs can be and have been successfully returned to civilian life.

I felt confident of success, and wrote out a memoir full of incontrovertible reasons in favour of the proposed change.

All of it is specifically designed to prepare people bouncers and mothership are incontrovertible proof that to accept without fear what we have here.

The true reason lay deep within the psychology of the aviator: medals were awarded not on hearsay but on incontrovertible proof of performance.

If "knowing" were an unanalysable relation, this view would be incontrovertible, since clearly no such relation forms part of the subject matter of physics.

She, noble creature, so marvelous in her temptations and beauties, with the excellences of her mind and the determined prides of her heart, how strange that she, so much prizing her freedom, is made whole only as it is ruthlessly swept from her, that the true totality of her response, the fullness of her ecstasy is the yielding and the surrender, and the more delicious and incontrovertible the more complete.

They have to be, they have to be, for what else could explain the inexplicable, the incomprehensible idiocy of keeping on sending supplies to Mihajlovic when they have before them incontrovertible evidence that he is actively collaborating with the Germans.

It appears, on the incontrovertible testimony of the Wedgwoods' accounts with their agents at Hamburg, that the expenses of all three travellers were defrayed by their friend at home.

Looking down the vast promontory of his nose he has beheld everything – the Cordilleras falling away into the Pacific, the history of the Diaspora done in vellum, shutters fluting the froufrou of the beach, the piano curving like a conch, corollas giving out diapasons of light, chameleons squirming under the book press, seraglios expiring in oceans of dust, music issuing like fire from the hidden chromosphere of pain, spore and madrepore fructifying the earth, navels vomiting their bright spawn of anguish… He is a bright sage, a dancing seer who, with a sweep of the brush, removes the ugly scaffold to which the body of man is chained by the incontrovertible facts of life.

Now, will you not also grant that the circumstantial evidence of a man's footprints in the snow would supply incontrovertible proof that it was, in fact, a man, and not a woman?

The Wanderer continued to hang in the heavens, velvet soft yet sharply defined, incontrovertible, its maroon and golden markings raggedly approximating the yin-yang symbol of bright and dark, male and female, good and evil.