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.
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not conditional“unconditional surrender”
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synonyms:
unconditioned
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blunt, crude, stark
devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
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vested
fixed and absolute and without contingency
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unqualified
not limited or restricted
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Antonyms:
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conditional
imposing or depending on or containing a condition
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contrary to fact, counterfactual
going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)
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contingent, contingent on, contingent upon, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on
determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
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dependant, dependent, qualified
contingent on something else
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probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative
under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
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provisory
subject to a proviso
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qualified
limited or restricted; not absolute
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blunt, crude, stark
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not modified or restricted by reservations
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synonyms:
categoric, categorical, flat
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unqualified
not limited or restricted
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unqualified
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not contingent; not determined or influenced by someone or something else
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Synonyms:
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independent
free from external control and constraint
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independent
/ənkənˈdɪʃɪnəl/
/ənkənˈdɪʃənəl/
Vocabulary lists containing unconditional
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