unconditional
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- inconditional (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From un- + conditional.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
unconditional (comparative more unconditional, superlative most unconditional)
- Absolute; without conditions, limitations, reservations or qualifications.
- We demand your unconditional surrender.
- Synonyms: absolute, categorical
- Antonym: conditional
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
without conditions
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NounEdit
unconditional (plural unconditionals)
- That which is not conditional.
- 1854, Victor Cousin, A. G. Henderson, The Philosophy of Kant: Lectures (page 90)
- The me, the world, and God, are the three unconditionals, the three absolutes […]
- 1854, Victor Cousin, A. G. Henderson, The Philosophy of Kant: Lectures (page 90)
- (logic) A conditional-like structure expressing that the consequent holds true regardless of the particular value of the antecedent.
ReferencesEdit
- (logic): 2019, Artemis Alexiadou, Anja Arnhold, Julia Bacskai-Atkari, Of Trees and Birds: A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow (page 155)