Unmistakable
[ʌnmɪ'steɪkəb(ə)l] or [,ʌnmɪ'stekəbl]
Definition
(adj.) clearly evident to the mind; 'his opposition to slavery was unmistakable' .
Edited by Anselm--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Clear, evident, palpable, plain, manifest, obvious, patent, open, visible, unequivocal, positive, unambiguous, pronounced, decided, glaring, notorious.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unambiguous, plain, evident, manifest, clear, unequivocal,[See LUCKY]
Typist: Weldon
Definition
adj. incapable of being mistaken: clear: distinct.—n. Unmistā′kableness.—adv. Unmistā′kably.
Checker: Rhonda
Examples
- The other man took the receiver, and a moment later his ear caught the sound of three little clicks, faint, but distinct and unmistakable, the three dots of the letter S in the Morse Code. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- An unmistakable delight shone forth from the blue eyes that met his, and the radiance seemed to light up all his future with mild sunshine. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Peter saw the laugh; it was unmistakable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Bosquet, sent me a drawing of a perfect specimen of an unmistakable sessile cirripede, which he had himself extracted from the chalk of Belgium. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Here Mrs. Bulstrode fixed her eyes on him, with an unmistakable purpose of warning, if not of rebuke. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There lay her mother, with an unmistakable look on her face. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She showed such unmistakable signs of being strongly Union that I stopped. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Here almost every product of the land and of the water bears the unmistakable stamp of the American continent. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- For at these distant points, the organic remains in certain beds present an unmistakable resemblance to those of the Chalk. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But he had spoken now, and had spoken with unmistakable directness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In this case the identity in nature between the arms of the pedicellariae and the movable branches of a spine, is unmistakable. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There was an unmistakable tone of suspicion in the strange question. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Its origin was unmistakable--it was the fall of a body into the stream in the adjoining mead, apparently at a point near the weir. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The tones in which he spoke betrayed unmistakable fear. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I should like to walk a little, says my Lady with unmistakable distinctness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Checker: Rhonda