Unconditional
[ʌnkən'dɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [,ʌnkən'dɪʃənl]
Definition
(adj.) not conditional; 'unconditional surrender' .
(adj.) not contingent; not determined or influenced by someone or something else .
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Definition
(a.) Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unrestricted, unlimited, complete, absolute, unqualified, unreserved.
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Examples
- A flank movement produced an unconditional surrender, however, for Laurie knew where to have him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I beg that you will sit down and tell me what you desire, but I fear that I cannot make any unconditional promise. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr Pancks wouldn't hear of excuses, wouldn't hear of complaints, wouldn't hear of repairs, wouldn't hear of anything but unconditional money down. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They blindly persevered in their own schemes, and left to the colonists no alternative but opposition or unconditional submission. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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