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unconditional

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˌʌnkənˈdɪʃənəl//

Absolute; without conditions, limitations, reservations or qualifications.

adjective

  1. 1

    Absolute; without conditions, limitations, reservations or qualifications.

    We demand your unconditional surrender.

    So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that America will continue to fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. Our demand has been and it remains unconditional surrender.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English conditional English unconditional From un- + conditional.

noun

  1. 1

    That which is not conditional.

    The me, the world, and God, are the three unconditionals, the three absolutes […]

  2. 2

    A conditional-like structure expressing that the consequent holds true regardless of the particular value of the antecedent.

Forms

plural
unconditionals
comparative
more unconditional
superlative
most unconditional
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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