UNANIMOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unanimous mean? 

• UNANIMOUS (adjective)
  The adjective UNANIMOUS has 2 senses:

1. in complete agreement

2. acting together as a single undiversified whole

  Familiarity information: UNANIMOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNANIMOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In complete agreement

Synonyms:

consentaneous; consentient; unanimous

Context example:

a unanimous decision

Similar:

accordant (being in agreement or harmony; often followed by 'with')

Derivation:

unanimity (everyone being of one mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Acting together as a single undiversified whole

Synonyms:

solid; unanimous; whole

Context example:

a solid voting bloc

Similar:

undiversified (not diversified)

Derivation:

unanimity (everyone being of one mind)

 Context examples 

No other visitor appeared that evening, and the ladies were unanimous in agreeing to go early to bed.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The critics were unanimous in the belief that it would take its place with those two classics by two great writers, "The Bottle Imp" and "The Magic Skin."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Here they inquire into the state and condition of the several districts; whether they abound or be deficient in hay or oats, or cows, or Yahoos; and wherever there is any want (which is but seldom) it is immediately supplied by unanimous consent and contribution.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"We are all unanimous in that wish, I suppose," said Elinor, "in spite of the insufficiency of wealth."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But I am I, and I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I should have said, 'consider what you are doing. You are making a most disgraceful connection, and such a one as your family are unanimous in disapproving.'

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A few minutes more spent in the same kind of effusion, concluded his visit; and with repeated assurances to his sisters that he really believed there was no material danger in Fanny's indisposition, and that they need not therefore be very uneasy about it, he went away; leaving the three ladies unanimous in their sentiments on the present occasion, as far at least as it regarded Mrs. Ferrars's conduct, the Dashwoods', and Edward's.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)