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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unmistakable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clear/obvious/unmistakable sign
▪ There are clear signs of a slowdown in economic growth.
distinctive/unmistakable
▪ Suddenly from below came the unmistakable sound of gunfire.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sign
▪ It was one more unmistakable sign that the core and mantle are linked.
▪ All the unmistakable signs of defeat greeted Petain's eyes in his first glimpse of the men he was to command.
▪ He was smiling, and Sarella could see the unmistakable signs of triumph on his face.
sound
▪ There was that unmistakable sound of the clock striking thirteen about this unexpected turn of events.
▪ She was speaking quietly, and there were screams in the background, along with the unmistakable sound of children crying.
▪ Then he heard it again, a slight but unmistakable sound from next door.
▪ You didn't need a hydrophone to pick up their unmistakable sound.
▪ She hardly noticed how sticky the receiver was, for as she put it to her ear she heard an unmistakable sound.
▪ And then came the unmistakable sound of a shot.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He'd started burning incense to disguise the unmistakable odour of marijuana coming from his bedroom.
▪ He spoke with an unmistakable Russian accent.
▪ Her accent was unmistakable -- Southern Ireland, probably West coast.
▪ Shots rang out, and we heard the unmistakable sound of a human scream.
▪ the unmistakable sounds of mariachi music
▪ The secretary of state said the measures are designed to send the regime a clear and unmistakable signal.
▪ When an envelope arrived bearing Dad's unmistakable handwriting, I knew something must be wrong.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the overall tone of the address was unmistakable.
▪ During the service I had the unmistakable feeling of being watched.
▪ His name is incorrectly spelt in the caption as N V Matovski, but the face is unmistakable.
▪ I could not follow their conversation but the exercise of power was unmistakable.
▪ It wasn't just the unmistakable aura of wealth and ruthless power which drew women to him like moths to the flame.
▪ Snow bunting males are unmistakable in their all-white plumage with black backs.
▪ The similarity is slight, but unmistakable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unmistakable

Unmistakable \Un`mis*tak"a*ble\, a. Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unmistakable

1660s, from un- (1) "not" + mistake (v.) + -able. Related: Unmistakably.

Wiktionary
unmistakable

a. unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.

WordNet
unmistakable

adj. clearly evident to the mind; "his opposition to slavery was unmistakable"

Wikipedia
Unmistakable

Unmistakable is the third studio album from Canadian country music artist Beverley Mahood. The album was released in Canada on November 18, 2008. The first single, "This Girl," was released to radio in May 2008. The third track, "Freckles," is a cover version of a Natasha Bedingfield song of the same name released on her album Pocketful of Sunshine.

Usage examples of "unmistakable".

Van Effen stabbed the button and less than two seconds later, deep and muffled like a distant underwater explosion but very unmistakable for all that - to anyone with normal hearing, the sound must have been audible up to a kilometre away - the reverberation from the detonating amatol rolled across the square.

The instant Ambrose heard the unmistakable click of iron against iron, he carried her back across the room to the sofa.

He was about to shout at the bartender when he felt an unmistakable awareness of someone behind him.

It was Blate, just behind, and then she heard the unmistakable metallic snick of metal on metal.

It is a matter of surprise that physicians generally pay so little attention to the urine when dyspepsia is suspected, since all admit that an examination of that excretion furnishes unmistakable evidence of the nature and complications of the disease.

There were blankets and the unmistakable white cargo-pods of homesteading gear littered about.

In that moment he felt the loathsome, unmistakable presence of the manhead, felt the entity tearing free of him-and vanishing.

Abbie stared at the elegant woman before her, taking in her dark hair skimmed back to emphasize the perfect oval of her face, the sparkling earrings of teardrop emeralds surrounded by glittering dia monds, and the figure-hugging gown of forest-green panne velvet that bore the unmistakable mark of Givenchy.

She had two brilliant and unattached young men dining with her--one, Michael Quarrington, a lion in the artistic world, and the other, Antoine Davilof, who showed unmistakable symptoms of developing sooner or later into a lion in the musical world.

Rising from the weeds were prickly stems whose identity was unmistakable to the rankest of amateurs.

But as I had remembered, there was an unnatural space between the bushes and the building where the salukis had bounded as at a familiar way, and the ground under our feet bore the unmistakable imprint of traffic.

Her strong, black brows grew straight and thick in an unbroken line above her eyes, her upper lip was dark with a sparse but unmistakable moustache of a few black hairs, her face, at once cold and hard in its mistrust, and smouldering with a dark and sinister desire, was stamped with that strange fellowship of avarice and passion he had seen in the faces of women such as this all over France.

His head rang again, and he swayed and almost fell, but this time the shock was a clear, urgent, and unmistakable wordless cry for help.

But in parts of her person over which thought held no swaythe lower portion of her insides, for examplethere were unmistakable stirrings of unbridled lust.

The telotaxis was programmed to self-destruct if detected by Pax antiviral programs, and to inoculate only if it received an unmistakable Core response.