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UNMISTAKABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Clearly evident to the mind
Example:
his opposition to slavery was unmistakable
Classified under:
Similar:
clear (readily apparent to the mind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
Example:
a palpable lie
Synonyms:
apparent; evident; manifest; palpable; patent; plain; unmistakable
Classified under:
Similar:
obvious (easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind)
Context examples:
There was a portrait within of a man strikingly handsome and intelligent-looking, but bearing unmistakable signs upon his features of his African descent.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If he had any doubts about the reception she would give him, they were set at rest the minute she looked up and saw him, for dropping everything, she ran to him, exclaiming in a tone of unmistakable love and longing...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Again that unnamable and unmistakable terror was in her eyes, and she said, almost in a whisper, “You are Lucifer.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Three dogs could not drag the sled so fast nor for so long hours as could six, and they were showing unmistakable signs of playing out.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The flush that would not leave the cheeks told the simple story, and more eloquently did the eyes, large and bright, reflecting an unmistakable inward glory.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
No little affectations marred it, and the cordial sweetness of her manner was more charming than the new beauty or the old grace, for it stamped her at once with the unmistakable sign of the true gentlewoman she had hoped to become.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was Smoke’s unmistakable voice, crying from the masthead.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But a voice behind me, the unmistakable voice of Wolf Larsen, strong with the invincible certitude of the man and mellow with appreciation of the words he was quoting, aroused me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale—and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
