unequivocal

• unæquivocal (rare)

From un- +‎ equivocal.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʌnɪˈkwɪvəkəl/
• (General American) enPR: ŭn'ĭ-kwĭvʹə-kəl, IPA^(key): /ˌʌnɪˈkwɪvəkəl/
• Rhymes: -ɪvəkəl
• Hyphenation: un‧equiv‧o‧cal

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unequivocal (comparative more unequivocal, superlative most unequivocal)

1. Unambiguous; without equivocation or ambiguity; singularly clear, unmistakable, or unquestionable

   I want you to give me an unequivocal guarantee on that.

   • 1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism:

     There exists no moral system under which there do not arise unequivocal cases of conflicting obligation.

   • 2011, M.A. Hayat, Tumors of the Central Nervous System, volume 5:

     Finally, in order to construct an integrated picture of genetic alterations in GBMs, the unequivocal alterations were mapped onto known gliomagenic pathways.

   • 2015 June 18, Nate Chinen, “Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 June 2022:

     Mr. Cleaver latched on to the idea, and within moments, the trio was swinging hard over a walking bass line — the equivalent of a blurred picture coming into unequivocal focus.

2. (possibly dated) Without equal, matchless.

   the unequivocal scope of the Golden Gate Bridge

• (unambiguous): definite, unambiguous, univocal; see also Thesaurus:explicit

• “unequivocal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “unequivocal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.