MEANING
So securely established or supported that it cannot be successfully refuted on the relevant grounds.
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- irrefutable evidence
- irrefutable conclusion
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The dated record supplied irrefutable evidence for the narrow chronological claim.
The conclusion was irrefutable within the agreed assumptions but did not decide the broader dispute.
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- irrefutable
Usage notes
Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: Comparative more irrefutable; superlative most irrefutable where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: evidence assessment, qualification, argument critique, assumption analysis. Disciplines: argumentation, logic, research interpretation, formal writing. Commonness: moderately common.
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