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Unresolved   /ənrɪzˈɑlvd/   Listen
Unresolved

adjective
1.
Not solved.  Synonym: unsolved.  "Many problems remain unresolved"
2.
Not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought.  Synonyms: open, undecided, undetermined.  "Our position on this bill is still undecided" , "Our lawsuit is still undetermined"
3.
Characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved.  Synonym: dissonant.






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"Unresolved" Quotes from Famous Books



... 180.] In these two nebulas we may perhaps see the mass ready to break up into separate worlds, the lenticular form being a natural result of extremely rapid rotation. Prom the fact that Andromeda 116 gives a continuous spectrum, Dr. Huggins inclines to the belief that it is an unresolved star cluster. But the reasons which led Sir W. Herschel to conclude that the nebula in Orion was gaseous, (a conclusion which, though for a time discredited by the supposed resolution of the nebula in Lord Kosse's telescope, was ultimately found to be correct), are equally applicable here. In ...
— The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science • T. S. Ackland

... not put together, and his characters are not conceived, to illustrate any particular law or principle. They teach many lessons, but not any one prominent above another; and when we have drawn from them all the direct instruction which they contain, there remains still something unresolved,—something which the artist gives, and which the ...
— Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists • James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, William Ewart Gladstone, John Henry Newman and Leslie Steph



Words linked to "Unresolved" :   music, inharmonious, solved, unharmonious, unsettled



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