IRREFUTABLE Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

irrefutable

adjective

ˌir-i-ˈfyü-tə-bəl

Definition of irrefutable

as in incontrovertible

not capable of being challenged or proved wrong the irrefutable reply of "Because I like it!"

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Recent Examples of irrefutable Multiply that by the scale of our senior population, and the case is irrefutable. — Patrick Roddy, Baltimore Sun, 9 June 2026 In the exhibition, surrounded by 100 of them, hung on white cloth in a grid, the horror of the conflict is irrefutable. — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 12 May 2026 Her 10-episode first season isn’t just an allegory for learning to accept and conquer life’s inescapable anxieties; its horrors are irrefutable for everyone onscreen, which makes for a cathartic, curious, and chilling experience for everyone watching at home. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 Apr. 2026 There is irrefutable evidence that reining in out-of-control litigation costs by cracking down on fraud benefits taxpayers. — Ike Brannon, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for irrefutable

Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrefutable

Adjective

That is what’s decreed by the Premier League, which reviews each incident and only wants players to be sent off if there is incontrovertible evidence that the referee had no choice.

— Graham Scott, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
By slow degrees, Philip’s story shifts to accommodate the incontrovertible evidence of IP addresses and deciphered cryptography and Lucy struggles to keep up, let alone understand.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026

Definition of incontrovertible

Adjective

Hansen has maintained that his journalistic objective was to try to interview the men in order to understand their motives, but there was an undeniable, if also dark, schadenfreude in watching the titular predators be exposed to millions.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
That was always the wrong question in some sense; AI just made that undeniable.

— Boris Kulakhmetov, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of undeniable

Adjective

To have or not to have pheromones Scientists have yet to find conclusive evidence about whether humans have or are able to detect pheromones.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 22 Sep. 2026
None is conclusive proof on its own, but each helps establish the date and time.

— Matthew Kayser, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of conclusive

Adjective

Collins made up for his lack of money by courting attention with relentless broadsides against the race’s unquestionable front-runner.

— Michael Van Sickler, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026
Arca — a nonbinary trans woman who makes uncategorizable music and embodies unquestionable glamour — anchors her divahood in a mutation of body, soul and sound.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of unquestionable

Adjective

Funnyman, vulgarian, auteur — Mel Brooks’s imprint on American cinema is incontestable yet scandalously undervalued.

— Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 26 June 2026
The mark was federally registered in 2015 and has since achieved incontestable status, a legal designation that strengthens ownership rights.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026

Definition of incontestable

Adjective

Yet despite these unarguable facts, the direction of the animation world lately has been decidedly pro-Shrek and anti–French rat.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 June 2026
But the unarguable fact is that the federal government would be providing less money to pay for health care for the roughly 72 million Americans on Medicaid.

— Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2025

Definition of unarguable

Adjective

As a result, mathematical truths do not make up a unified whole of equally indubitable truths; instead, their status as knowledge varies gradually from doubtless facts to increasingly uncertain hypotheses.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2026
The second route, and the route that makes indubitable sense, entails using the techniques and methods of psychology to gauge the performance of AI.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2026

Definition of indubitable

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