English edit

Etymology edit

un- +‎ answering

Adjective edit

unanswering (not comparable)

  1. Giving no answer; unresponsive.
    • 1869, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Men, Women, and Ghosts[1]:
      Lying so, her face turned up against it, her stiffened lips kissing the very dumb, unanswering wood, a thought came to her.
    • 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo[2]:
      He shouted till he was hoarse, and till the sound of his own voice in all that unanswering and listening world began to frighten him.