Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not mingled or diluted with extraneous matter; pure.
  • adjective Out-and-out; utter.

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  • adjective pure; not mixed or adulterated with anything
  • adjective utter or out-and-out, especially in the phrase unadulterated truth

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
  • adjective not mixed with impurities

Etymologies

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un- +‎ adulterated

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Examples

  • I am drinking in unadulterated heaven with my eyes.

    the wry writer | speculative fiction with a humorous slant! | Page 2 2010

  • I am drinking in unadulterated heaven with my eyes.

    Sanguine Pizza 2009

  • I am drinking in unadulterated heaven with my eyes.

    speculative fiction with a humorous slant! 2009

  • Even with the Authority recast as a pseudo-Nazi State, the questions about childhood remain unadulterated in the film.

    But enough about you Roger Sutton 2007

  • Hate to break it to you, Eric, but by calling me a "name caller" you were engaged in unadulterated name calling.

    Sound Politics: Post-Thanksgiving Turkey 2006

  • I just want to remember "Klick-Kult mit Gangsta-Rap" in unadulterated bot-grish.

    Boing Boing: December 25, 2005 - December 31, 2005 Archives 2005

  • It suddenly became immensely important to me that I have a jar of real maraschino cherries, without corn syrup, red dye, et al., made by soaking unadulterated real cherries in unadulterated maraschino liquor.

    Toast: Lindy 2005

  • It suddenly became immensely important to me that I have a jar of real maraschino cherries, without corn syrup, red dye, et al., made by soaking unadulterated real cherries in unadulterated maraschino liquor.

    The Christmas Present Lindy 2005

  • See, Moe, it’s not just about plain unadulterated “facts,” which by themselves are dry bits of data, devoid of all flavor and meaning.

    The WaPo discovers that there are Alabama Democrats. | RedState 2010

  • In the evenings, she hoovered up sadza and milk or cream-laden bonemeal with an expression of unadulterated bliss, and then she’d climb into one of the hessian-padded tractor tires we kept under the carport for the dogs and sink into a coma, her beauty-queen eyelashes curling up from her cheeks.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

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