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• a  relating to or included in a category or categories
• s  not modified or restricted by reservations
  a categorical denial

• The committee gave a categorical denial regarding any of its members being part of the syndicate.
• Although he stops just short of the categorical, the militant libertarian champions the theory (previously limited to Internet forums and sites, including his own) that the attacks .
• Undaunted by a lack of categorical expertise, the sisters, who are now reportedly 38 and 33 (they refuse to confirm their ages), are plotting to conquer the world.

• categoric
• flat
• unconditional

News & Articles

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• Blekko Reimagines Search for iOS and Android, Launches izik for Smartphones
  Search technology innovator Blekko today announced the launch of izik for smartphones, bringing their popular categorical search experience to iOS and Android users. izik capitaliz
  June 18, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• VUSD OKs spending of funds
  Vacaville Unified School District leaders, after quickly opening and then closing a public hearing because no one spoke, approved proposed uses of categorical funding during a regularly scheduled board meeting on Thursday.
  June 15, 2013 - The Vacaville Reporter
• Vacaville Unified School District leaders to discuss categorical funding use
  Vacaville Unified leaders, after a public hearing, will be asked to approve and disapprove proposed uses of categorical funding when they meet tonight in open session in Vacaville.
  June 13, 2013 - The Vacaville Reporter

Quotes

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• Guillermo del Toro in The Guardian
  It's not greenlit,Del Toro said last month. "That's categorical. We've been caught in a very tangled negotiation. There cannot be any start dates until the MGM [financial] situation gets resolved. They do hold a considerable portion of the...
• David Remnick in Newsday
  You would think that the permanent secretary of an academy that pretends to wisdom but has historically overlooked Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov, to name just a few non-Nobelists, would spare us the categorical lectures,said David Remnick,...
• Barack Obama in Asia Times Online
  I think Vice President Biden stated a categorical fact which is we can't dictate to other countries what their security interests are,Obama said in Moscow. "What is also true is that it is the policy of the United States to try to resolve...