Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; clear and unambiguous: an unequivocal success.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not equivocal, in any sense. Synonyms Plain, unambiguous, unmistakable. See
obscure .
Wiktionary
- adj. Unambiguous; without equivocation or ambiguity; singularly clear, unmistakable, or unquestionable
- adj. Without equal, matchless. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion
- adj. clearly defined or formulated
Etymologies
- un- + equivocal (Wiktionary)
Examples
“At the end of the day, all the delegates unified in support, based on what they described as unequivocal commitment from the Obama campaign to better the rights of Asian Americans.”
“She denounced Nazi Germany from the very start in unequivocal terms.”
“My critical queries in unequivocal black would seek, in advance, answers aforethought.”
“I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy.”
“She said originally in unequivocal terms that the primaries would not count.”
“Joe Quesada stated in unequivocal terms that Captain America was wrong and Dan Slott announced a new Great Lakes Avengers one-shot that he will be writing with Fabian Nicieza.”
“Of course it will take time to identify specific individuals, but it would have taken Stern no time to condemn assaults against players in unequivocal terms.”
“His own approach, direct and unequivocal, is expressed in the bill in which he proposes to give Congress absolute authority to veto executive agreements within sixty days.”
“A President, Mr. Bush, uses the carte blanche he has already, not to manipulate an overlap of arriving and departing Brigades into a ‘second surge,’ but to say in unequivocal terms that if it takes every last dime of the monies already allocated, if it takes reneging on government contracts with Halliburton, he will make sure the troops are safe — even if the only safety to be found, is in getting them the hell out of there.”
“My personal hope is that the western allies including Canada with all the other smaller nations, will stand firm and secure in unequivocal condemnation of Russia in her blockade of Berlin-and what is even more important, will secure the entire membership of the United Nations other than Russia and her satellites, to support the United States proposal (known as the Barruch plan) to turn over the atomic bomb in all its phases to an international control commission of the United Nations (exclusive of Russia) - and will outlaw any nation who attempts to manufacture the atomic bomb-and will create a military police force (again exclusive of Russia) with sufficient power to enforce outlawry of the bomb and its manufacture.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘unequivocal’.
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The words on this list SAT regulars that I haven't sorted and grouped yet. It's like my wordy holding pen. get it? holding the pen to write a word? HA! I love how lame my humor is.
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Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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Words that I may or may not use comfortably, but enjoy using and I like the sound of the word.
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My list of words.
veritable, facetious, nadir, quixotic, apropos, acquiesce, ostensible, insipid, egregious, inveterate, coax, adroit and 409 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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