different between incontrovertible vs undoubting

English

Etymology

in- +? controvertible

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.k?n.t???v??.t?bl?/

Adjective

incontrovertible (comparative more incontrovertible, superlative most incontrovertible)

1. Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.

   Synonyms: indisputable, undeniable, unquestionable

   Antonym: controvertible

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Translations

Spanish

Etymology

From in- +? controvertible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inkont?obe??tible/, [??.kõn?.t??o.??e??t?i.??le]

Adjective

incontrovertible (plural incontrovertibles)

1. undisputable

English

Etymology

un- +? doubting

Adjective

undoubting (not comparable)

1. (of persons, states of mind, beliefs, etc.) Experiencing or harboring no doubts; entirely confident.
   • 1665, George Wither, Meditations on the Lord's Prayer, London, page 75:

     And we shall have an undoubting assurance that that this Kingdom is in such a measure within us, as will ripen to perfection in due time.

   • 1787, Jonathan Edwards, Treatise concerning the religious affections, New York, N.Y.: Robert Hodge, page 196:

     And God's declared design in all this is, that the heirs of the promises might have an undoubting hope.

   • 1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter XXIV, in Night and Day:

     It was the part of a gentleman to preserve a bearing that was, as far as he could make it, the bearing of an undoubting lover.

   • 2002 October 6, Mike Greenberg, “Guest, symphony an adept team”, in San Antonio Express-News, page 8B:

     This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction.

Derived terms

• undoubtingly

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “undoubting”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.