| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having and exercising complete political power and control: absolutistic, arbitrary, autarchic, autarchical, autocratic, autocratical, despotic, dictatorial, monocratic, totalitarian, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous. See OVER, POLITICS. 2. Having no reservations: implicit, unconditional, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unquestioning, unreserved, wholehearted. See BIG, LIMITED. 3. Supremely excellent in quality or nature: consummate, faultless, flawless, impeccable, indefectible, perfect, unflawed. See GOOD. 4. Free from extraneous elements: perfect, plain, pure, sheer2, simple, unadulterated, undiluted, unmixed. See CLEAN. 5. Without limitations or mitigating conditions: unconditional, unconditioned, unqualified, unreserved. See LIMITED. 6. Completely such, without qualification or exception: all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer2, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter2. Informal : flat-out, positive. Chiefly British : blooming. See BIG, LIMITED.
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