answer
noun
a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc..
unanswering
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a word derived from
answer.
Example Sentences
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None have been better — technically more audacious, emotionally more varied, ethically more unanswering — than this one.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2012
Our own demand for justice and for reasons comes to the same unanswering answer.
From Time Magazine Archive
By and by Vere would come to summon that unanswering figure to the gay little breakfast-table.
From The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
Straight to the sunrise my ship’s sails are leaning, Brave at the masthead her new colours fly; Down on the shore, her lips trembling with meaning, Love waits, but unanswering, I heed not her cry.
From Threads of Grey and Gold by Myrtle Reed
The rigid form, the unanswering lips and eye, the body passive in the hands of others, had fixed on her heart, as it commonly does, the one impression of death.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
