without reservation

ADJECTIVE

unqualified

Synonyms

STRONGEST

steadfast unalloyed unconditional unmitigated

WEAK

abiding blasted blessed categorical certain clear complete confounded consummate downright enduring entire explicit express firm flat out infernal never-failing no catch no ifs ands or buts out-and-out perfect positive rank sheer simple steady sure thorough thoroughgoing total unadulterated unfaltering unlimited unreserved unrestrained unrestricted utter wholehearted

Antonyms

WEAK

competent conditional indefinite prepared qualified ready temporary tentative

ADVERB

entirely

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absolutely alone altogether completely exclusively fully only perfectly quite solely thoroughly totally utterly wholly

WEAK

hook, line, and sinker in every respect plumb reservedly undividedly uniquely well without exception

Antonyms

STRONGEST

inadequately incompletely partially partly

ADVERB

flat-out

Synonyms

WEAK

all the way all-out at a good clip for all one's worth full blast head over heels in full gallop lickety-split the whole nine yards to the max unrestrainedly wide open

ADVERB

quite

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absolutely actually altogether entirely fully largely perfectly really thoroughly totally truly utterly wholly

WEAK

all all in all all told considerably in all respects in fact in reality in toto in truth just positively precisely purely well

Antonyms

STRONGEST

doubtfully inadequately incompletely indefinite partially partly

ADVERB

thoroughly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absolutely completely entirely fully perfectly quite totally wholly

WEAK

altogether downright plumb to the full well

Antonyms

STRONGEST

incompletely partially partly

WEAK

deficiently inadequately inexhaustively superficially

Example Sentences

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Rabbi Goldstein is no radical, but he gave a remarkable, even shocking, speech in a historical era in which popes have condemned antisemitism without reservation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

For her part, Linda understood her place without reservation.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2026

What is offered to another person without reservation can also be taken without recompense.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2024

Labour's chief whip has asked Mr Corbyn to "unequivocally, unambiguously and without reservation" apologise for claiming that the scale of antisemitism in the party was overstated.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2023

And a curious one, too—for every person in the car, adult and child alike, realized just then that they trusted this eleven-year-old boy quite without reservation.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

without reservation

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