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What is "unanswered"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unanswered
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unanswered

Unanswered \Un*an"swered\, a.

  1. Not answered; not replied; as, an unanswered letter.

  2. Not refuted; as, an unanswered argument.

  3. Not responded to in kind; unrequited; as, unanswered affection.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unanswered

late 14c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of answer (v.).

Wiktionary
unanswered

a. That has not been answered or addressed.

WordNet
unanswered

adj. not returned in kind; "unrequited (unanswered) love" [syn: unreciprocated, unrequited]

Usage examples of "unanswered".

Most of all, having trouble focusing on discussion: Single unanswered question kept intruding, clamoring for answer, derailing extraneous thoughts.

Turner is not about to let that assault go unanswered, and he persues the escapee to Memphis, where he discovers a connection to organized crime.

They are scribbling addenda in those notebooks, adding unanswered questions there.

Under an unanswered and therefore an unaimed fire from the heavy guns the Irish infantry moved forward upon the points which they had been ordered to attack.

If there was one thing Susanna Appleton hated, it was unanswered questions.

The remaining unanswered question is whether the peoples who occupied these archeological sites thousands of years ago shared a similar economic system based, at least to a large degree, on hunting mammoth and other extinct Pleistocene animals.

Eulenspiegels, or, finally, for the edification of Argemone as to her own history, past, present, or future, are questions which we must leave unanswered, till physicians have become a little more of metaphysicians, and have given up their present plan of ignoring for nine hundred and ninety-nine pages that most awful and significant custom of dreaming, and then in the thousandth page talking the boldest materialist twaddle about it.

The audiocassette in his breast-pocket radio records the unanswered query of Burnett, the other guard on duty, who was calling from the perimeter security post about the camera failure.

Pam Bichon, alone with her killer, her screams for mercy tearing the fabric of the night, unheeded, unanswered.

Raesa was off with Cera to hunt some game for dinner, and Calli still had many questions left unanswered.

Betro Giusto asked, not willing to depart with the question unanswered.

Mendoza, in fact, forced to file away an unanswered question-as he had six months ago in the Brooks case-felt very much the way an overnice housewife would feel, forced to leave dinner dishes in the sink overnight.

I did not leave this question unanswered, and continuing the amorous discourse with animation I won a sigh and a lovelorn glance.

Another reason prayers sometimes seem to, go unanswered pertains to our spiritual condition at the time of our praying.

Along Jefferson, signs of the riots still remained, as did my unanswered questions.