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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unqualified
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
success
▪ The air campaign has not been an unqualified success in any of its missions.
▪ The experiment was not an unqualified success.
▪ Their attack on the Centre LePen hadn't been an unqualified success, but Duroc was pleased with the loss of life.
▪ Despite these benefits it is too early to pronounce fundholding an unqualified success.
▪ It had not been an unqualified success.
▪ Nor could the vaunted irrigation scheme be described as an unqualified success.
support
▪ To this decision, the army leadership which had long ago forfeited its moral independence - gave its unqualified support.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A qualified audit report, as opposed to an unqualified report, should leave the reader in no doubt as to its meaning and implications.
▪ Accountants Marks Bloom had audited the accounts and had issued an unqualified opinion on them.
▪ And in fact, the isolation and weakness of the radical milieu put a premium upon commitment to an unqualified Utopia.
▪ But would anyone unqualified be allowed to teach doctors or lawyers?
▪ The air campaign has not been an unqualified success in any of its missions.
▪ The kind of unqualified quantification illustrated by such examples, he might argue, does not really make clear sense.
▪ This changed the ratio of qualified to unqualified staff from 61:23 to 58:28.
▪ To this decision, the army leadership which had long ago forfeited its moral independence - gave its unqualified support.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unqualified

1550s, "not having necessary qualifications, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of qualify (v.). Meaning "not modified or limited" is recorded from 1796. As a verb, unqualify "disqualify" is from 1650s.

Wiktionary
unqualified

a. 1 Not qualified, ineligible, unfit for a position or task. 2 Not elaborated upon, undescribed.

WordNet
unqualified
  1. adj. not limited or restricted; "an unqualified denial" [ant: qualified]

  2. not meeting the proper standards and requirements and training [ant: qualified]

  3. having no right or entitlement; "a distinction to which he was unentitled" [syn: unentitled]

  4. lacking specific legal qualifications; "a wife is usually considered unqualified to testify against her husband"

  5. lacking the necessary skill or knowledge etc.; "an incapable helper" [syn: incapable]

Usage examples of "unqualified".

Lord Bute should have a place, on condition that he agreed to give unqualified support to Pitt.

After the partition of the empire, three years had scarcely elapsed before the sons of Constantine seemed impatient to convince mankind that they were incapable of contenting themselves with the dominions which they were unqualified to govern.

Unqualified gifts for love by solvent people will, of course, be quite possible and permissible, unsalaried services and the like, provided the standard of life is maintained and the joint income of the couple between whom the services hold does not sink below twice the minimum wage.

It is most interesting viewed as the unqualified affirmation by Jesus of the doctrine of a future life which shall be deathless.

To apply it to the case of France, if there had been a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, between the United States and that country, the unqualified acknowledgment of the new government would have put the United States in a condition to become an associate in the war with France, and would have laid the legislature under an obligation, if required, and there was otherwise no valid excuse, of exercising its power of declaring war.

Even undemonstrative old Lord Alexandros allowed himself a broad smile of satisfaction at this unqualified success of his brainchild.

When Jefferson learned that Adams was again to collaborate with Franklin at Paris, he was incredulous and in a coded letter to Madison offered a private view of Adams that was anything but an unqualified endorsement.

But no kinaesthetic language has yet been devised to describe it in detail, and without one we are in the position of an unqualified observer viewing an operation for brain surgery.

Caia Melania, that you have already judged me unqualified for the one famously invaluable gem in your jewel box.

Encouraged by this tribute, Hero showed him a cloak of green sarsnet trimmed with swansdown, which she had purchased that morning, and upon his expressing his unqualified approval of this garment, confided, a little nervously, that she feared he might, when he came to see the bill, think it a trifle dear.

THOUGH NORMAN MOTE tried to make those in the ville believe that the raid on the stickies had been an unqualified success, there were too many corpses from Snakefish to convince everyone.

Yet the rabid mad dog Left, using the yapper Charles Schumer as their lead attack dog, viciously assailed him as unqualified.

Although I was convinced that the inhabitants of our bay were as arrant cannibals as any of the other tribes on the island, still I could not but feel a particular and most unqualified repugnance to the aforesaid Typees.

Some were dorados that would have been unqualified feasts on the lifeboat.

If it passes, local communities will find it hard, if not impossible, to independently crack down on unqualified roofers, masons and carpenters.