irrefutable

ir-ih-FYOO-tuh-buladj

Meaning impossible to prove wrong

Memory hook can’t REFUTE the crumbs. Pip says he didn’t eat the cookies, but crumbs cover his face and his hand is still in the jar: the proof is irrefutable.

The video replay was irrefutable proof that the ball crossed the line.

In context Scientists once doubted that the continents move, but measurements from satellites now offer irrefutable evidence that they drift a few centimeters every year.

Similar undeniable, indisputable, incontrovertible, conclusive

Opposite questionable, doubtful, debatable

From in- (not) + refutable, from Latin refutare (to push back, prove wrong).

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