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unconditional

Whether it’s love, support, or surrender, if something’s unconditional it’s absolute and not subject to any special terms or conditions: it’ll happen no matter what else happens.

Breaking apart the word unconditional can help you remember its meaning. Combine the prefix un-, meaning “not,” with conditional, meaning "dependent on something else," and you get an adjective for something that holds true without any conditions attached. The unconditional forgiveness you promised your brother means you forgive him no matter what. You’re not attaching any requirements — like you’ll only forgive him if he’s nicer to you or pays you money. You just forgive him — it's absolute.

DEFINITIONS OF: unconditional

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adj not conditional

unconditional surrender”
Synonyms:
unconditioned
blunt, crude, stark
devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
vested
fixed and absolute and without contingency
unqualified
not limited or restricted
Antonyms:
conditional
imposing or depending on or containing a condition
contrary to fact, counterfactual
going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)
contingent, contingent on, contingent upon, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on
determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
dependant, dependent, qualified
contingent on something else
probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative
under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
provisory
subject to a proviso
qualified
limited or restricted; not absolute
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adj not modified or restricted by reservations

Synonyms:
categoric, categorical, flat
unqualified
not limited or restricted

adj not contingent; not determined or influenced by someone or something else

Synonyms
independent
free from external control and constraint
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