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unanimously

unanimously

57 3.8
Everyone agrees completely
  • adverb
  • /juˈnænɪməsli/
translation icon : por unanimidad
  • The committee voted unanimously to approve the new policy changes.
  • voted unanimously
  • agreed unanimously
  • almost unanimously

Parliament has already unanimously rejected this idea.

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Examples

  • In this program, the school board unanimously said that they would pay tuition for hundreds of their own students to attend private schools.

  • The board has voted unanimously to endorse your product.

  • So we all unanimously decide that we will stay back in coach together, OK?

  • You know, the town voted unanimously, approved the water main, so...

  • Parliament has already unanimously rejected this idea.

  • After the siege, he was elected unanimously.

  • Right before Christmas, the United States Senate unanimously, in a bipartisan approach, passed a funding bill.

  • Michael was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate in August of this year to serve as CTO.

  • We, the city council, have voted unanimously to create a new full-time position for you as a special officer of the court.

  • Many of these tribes democratically and unanimously elected one candidate to represent them.

    Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

universally
vsunanimously
65 3.7

In every case and by everyone

is about full agreement in a group not general applicability
solidly
vsunanimously
23 3.4

In a way that shows complete support as one group

focuses on absence of dissent rather than group unity
nemine contradicente
vsunanimously
  • Formal
9.9

With no one opposing

is identical in meaning but is a formal Latin phrase
nem con
vsunanimously
  • Archaic
9.9

A decision approved with no one voting against it

is general usage for total agreement beyond voting

How United

unanimously
57 3.8
collectively
91 3.6
mostly
1.0
partly
375 1.0

Surface Forms

unanimously positive

Morphology

unanimously = unanimous (transparent) = unanimous + ly

Standard adverb formation by adding '-ly' to an adjective, so the meaning is directly predictable from 'unanimous'.

Etymology

Unanimously comes from the Latin words unus 'one' and animus 'mind', and it originally meant 'of one mind'. The animus part is the same root in animate, and that's why to act unanimously is for everyone to agree with no one against the decision.