nonanswer

noun

non·an·swer ˌnän-ˈan(t)-sər

: a response that fails to address the subject of a question : an uninformative or unsatisfactory answer

The answer to that question is not easy to come by. "Why did I leave? Because I felt it was time that I left," is Midori's nonanswer during our first interview.—

K. Robert Schwarz

Examples of nonanswer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Phillip Hawkins, a single 29-year-old video editor and day trader from Baldwin Hills, had a similar nonanswer. —

Lz Granderson, ajc, 16 Apr. 2020 The long pause from the curators led to a nonanswer that hinted: Don’t bet on it. —

Todd Martens, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019

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