Unanimous

Definition: Unanimous

Unanimous

Adjective

1. In complete agreement; "a unanimous decision".

2. Acting together as a single undiversified whole; "a solid voting bloc".

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Date "unanimous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Unanimous \U*nan"i*mous\, adjective. [Latin expression unanimus, unanimus; unus one animus mind: compare to the French expression unanime. See Unit, and Animate.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Unanimous

Assent

Carried, agreed, nem. coNoun: adVerb: unanimous; agreed on all hands, carried by acclamation.

Crosswords: Unanimous

Now that's as unanimous as you can get. (The Magnificent Seven; writing credit: William Roberts; Walter Newman)

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Books

• The unanimous bipartisan National Governors' Association agreement on Medicaid : hearings before the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, February 21 and March 6, 1996 (reference)

• The Unanimous Tradition: Essays on the Essential Unity of All Religions (reference)

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Music

• Unanimous Hour (reference)

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Which makes it somewhat unanimous. Credit: Library of Congress.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America. Credit: Library of Congress.

Unanimous!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Hamilton, of New York,) expressing their unanimous conviction that it might essentially tend to advance the interests of the Union if the States by which they were respectively delegated would concur, and use their endeavors to procure the concurrence of the other States, in the appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the Second Monday of May following, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled as, when agreed to by them and afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State, would effectually provide for the same. (reference)

Subject to the provisions of the present Treaty this Annex may be amended by the unanimous decision of the Governments represented from time to time upon the Commission. (reference)

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The people were unanimous, and had laid in stores of provisions, and a great river runs through the middle of the town.

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Business

Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt (SPD) formed a government and received the unanimous support of coalition members. (references)

As in other Soviet bloc countries, electoral participation was consistently high, with nearly unanimous candidate approval. (references)

Economic History

Gabon

In January 1991, the Assembly passed by unanimous vote a law governing the legalization of opposition parties. (references)

Zimbabwe

The bill of rights could not be amended for the first ten years of independence except by unanimous vote of the House of Assembly. (references)

Namibia

In the ensuing years, the United States played the principal role in negotiations to achieve Namibian independence, a process that enjoyed virtually unanimous international support. (references)

Human Rights

Morocco

In addition decision making was changed from requiring a unanimous vote to a two-thirds majority. (references)

Malaysia

Immediately following the detention under the ISA of the opposition activists in April, the Commission issued a unanimous statement calling on the Government to release the detainees or to charge them in open court. (references)

Pakistan

For example, in May 2000, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the coup on the grounds of state necessity; however, the court ordered the Musharraf Government to hold national elections no later than 90 days after October 12, 2002. The decision also affirmed the Supreme Court's continued right of judicial review, ruled that it was legal for the Musharraf Government to amend the Constitution as long as the amendments do not change the basic character of the Constitution, and reserved the right to review the military's performance, the continued necessity of the Emergency Proclamation, and the PCO. (references)

Political Economy

Indonesia

UNTAET was established by a unanimous vote of the UN Security Council on October 25, 1999 for the purpose of rebuilding East Timor and helping to establish a new government. (references)

Worker Rights

Mexico

By January 12, there was unanimous support among the tripartite members of the wage commission for establishing a consultative committee for the modernization of the minimum wage system. (references)

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Expressions using "unanimous": by a unanimous vote ♦ unanimous vote. Additional references.

Ending with "unanimous": near-unanimous.

Albanian

unanim, i njëzëshëm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏متفق عليه بالإجماع, ‏متفق عليه (agreed, agreeing, concurrent, of one accord, united in opinion), ‏إجماعي (solid), ‏بالإجماع (at one). (various references)

Bulgarian 

единодушен (consentaneous, consentient, ringing, solid). (various references)

Chinese 

全� �一致 , 一致同意 (unanimously), 一致 (identical). (various references)

Czech

shodný (coincident, congruent, congruous, identical, parallel), jednomyslný (consentaneous, consentient, solid). (various references)

Danish

senere overenskomster,som kraever Medlemsstaternes enstemmige godkendelse (agreements to be concluded subsequently with the unanimous approval of Member States), Rådets enstemmige godkendelse (unanimous approval of the Council), procesreglementet kraever Raadets enstemmige godkendelse (the rules of procedure shall require the unanimous approval of the Council), enstemmigt tilsagn (unanimous consent), enstemmig opfattelse (unanimous opinion), enstemmig og samstemmende udtalelse (unanimous assent). (various references)

Dutch

eensgezind, eenparig. (various references)

Esperanto

unuanima. (various references)

Farsi 

یکدل ویک زبان , متفق القول , هم رای , اجماعا. (various references)

Finnish

yksimielinen. (various references)

French

unanime (unanimously, undivided). (various references)

German

einstimmig (by a unanimous vote, concordant, concordantly, for one voice, in unison, solid, solidly, unanimously), einmütig (unanimously), einhellig (with one accord). (various references)

Greek 

ομόφωνοσ (consensual, homophonous), ομόθυμοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

פ�" אח�" (unanimously, with one voice). (various references)

Hungarian

egyhangú (dull, humdrum, jog trot, jog-trot, monotone, monotonic, monotonous, muzzy, unexciting). (various references)

Indonesian

bulat (round, sphere). (various references)

Italian

unanime (solid). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

満� �一致 , 満� � (whole audience), 全会一致 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜ�"かいいっち, ま�"じょういっち, ま�"じょう (all, whole audience). (various references)

Korean 

만장일치 (unanimity). (various references)

Manx

unnaneagh (particular, singular), lesh un' aigney (unanimously). (various references)

Pig Latin

animousunay

Portuguese

unânime (consentaneous). (various references)

Romanian

unanim (common, consentaneous, consentient, solid, unanimously). (various references)

Russian 

единогласный, единодушный (consentaneous, consentient). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

složan (harmonious, united), jednoglasan (one-part), jednodušan, istomišljenički. (various references)

Spanish

unánime (solid). (various references)

Swedish

samstämmig (concordant, concurrent, harmonious), enhällig (enanimous). (various references)

Turkish

oybirliği ile verilmiş, müttefik (allied, ally, confederate), aynı fikirde. (various references)

Ukrainian

одностайний (consentient), одноголосний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhất trí (consentient, solid). (various references)

Welsh

unfryd, unfarn, cytu+n (agreed, of one accord). (various references)

consentiens, consentientes, consona, unanimus, unianimem, unianimes, unianimis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "unanimous": unanimously. (additional references)

Words ending with "unanimous": nonunanimous. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Unanimous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ananimous, uananimous, unanamous, unanimaous, unanimus, unaninmous, unanmious, unanxious, unanymous, unenvious, unonymous. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: numinous.

-2 letters: amnions, mansion, onanism.

-3 letters: amnion, amnios, animus, anions, miaous, nanism, nasion, nomina, numina, unions, unison, unmans.

-4 letters: amino, amins, amnio, anion, mains, manos, manus, mason, miaou, minas, minus, moans, monas, munis, muons, nomas, nonas, nouns, onium, sunna, unais, unaus, union, unman.

-5 letters: aims, ains, amin, amis, amus, anis, anon, anus, inns, ions, main.

+2 letters: mountainous, unanimously.

+3 letters: nonambiguous, nonunanimous.

+4 letters: mountainously.

+5 letters: insurmountable, insurmountably.