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An irrefutable statement or argument is one you cannot prove wrong, so you have to accept it — or at least, that is the claim. People use it about facts, photos, numbers, and proof in a fight or in court. It is a strong, careful word, a little loud. Though actually, speakers often call something irrefutable when they feel very sure, not when nobody on earth could argue back. In careful talk it is stronger than “convincing” and stronger than “hard to deny.” If someone can still make a fair case the other way, the word is doing more work than the facts.
無可反駁的、無可否認的
組成From Late Latin irrefūtābilis: ir- (not) + refūtābilis (able to be shown wrong), from refūtō (to refute, to prove wrong) + -bilis (-able). In English it is ir- + refutable.
同家族的字
- refutethe verb: to prove a claim wrong
- refutablethe yes-form: able to be proved wrong
- refutationthe noun: the act of proving something wrong
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
irrefutableadj/ˌɪɹɪˈfjuːtəbəl/
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undeniable; unable to be disproved or refuted
- […]clear and irrefutable evidence of the Cause I have undertaken
- True, there had been nothing, in his lifetime, viler than this man. She knew it, there was no other fact within her consciousness that she felt to be so certain; and yet, because her persecutor found himself safe and irrefutable in death, he frowned upon his victim, and threw back the blame on her!
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。