categorical
adjective
without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional.
categoric
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a variation of
categorical.
Example Sentences
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Ministers are under strict instruction not to be categoric about what has made the cut and what has not - even privately.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
The claim, Dugdale responded, was “absolute nonsense”, upping this in a later tweet to “a categoric lie”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2017
The opposition was categoric the suspension was indefinite.
From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2016
However, Mr Marshall said he "couldn't be categoric about it".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2014
What do you understand Shaler to mean by the statement that "at the beginning of any acquaintance the fellow-being is evidently dealt with in the categoric way"?
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
