a. rare. [f. ANSWER sb. + -LESS.]
1. Without an answer, having no answer. a. Having no answer to give. b. Having received no answer. c. That is, or contains, no answer.
1533. More, Debell. Salem, Wks. 1557, 988/1. And then as you se this good man had ben quyt answerlesse.
1586. Lett. to Earle Leycester, 32. Excuse my doutefulnesse, and take in good part my answere answerelesse.
2. Having no possible answer, unanswerable. (Cf. countless, endless.)
1822. Byron, Juan, VI. lxiii. Our ultimate existence? what’s our present? Are questions answerless.
1870. Spurgeon, Treas. David, Ps. xviii. 19. Why Jehovah should delight in us is an answerless question.
