Definitions For Irrefragable

Adjective

Which cannot be refuted; clearly right#adjective, right, incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable. from 16th c. : : (archaic) Which cannot or should not be break#verb, broken; indestructible. : (obsolete) Of a person: obstinate, stubborn. : :

Alternative forms

irrefragible

Derived terms

irrefragability irrefragableness irrefragably

Translations

Bulgarian: безспорен, неоспорим French: irréfragable Ido: nerefutebla Italian: irrefragabile Latin: irrefrāgābilis Maori: whakaioio Portuguese: irrefragável Russian: бесспо́рный, m, неопровержи́мый, m, неоспори́мый, m Spanish: irrefragrable which cannot or should not be broken, indestructible

Etymology

+ w:english language, english -able, pos=s with the sense ‘able or fit to be done’. , Irrefrāgābilis is derived from Latin ir- (variant of in-, pos=) + refrāgārī; + -bilis, pos=suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon; while , refrāgārī is the of refrāgor ("to oppose, resist; to gainsay, thwart") (further etymology uncertain, possibly from re-, pos=prefix meaning ‘again’ + fragor, t=a breaking, shattering; a crash; din, uproar (from frangō, t=to break, shatter, ultimately from of suffrāgōr, the present of suffrāgō, t=to support; to vote for.