Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Involving either complete success or failure, with no intermediate result.
- adjective Refusing to accept less than all demands; uncompromising.
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- adjective that will either completely
succeed or completelyfail
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective occurring completely or not occurring at all
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Examples
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For another, it also does something even more crucial to your psychological success: It stops you from focusing on some arbitrary number that promotes the idea of all-or-nothing success or failure.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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For another, it also does something even more crucial to your psychological success: It stops you from focusing on some arbitrary number that promotes the idea of all-or-nothing success or failure.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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For another, it also does something even more crucial to your psychological success: It stops you from focusing on some arbitrary number that promotes the idea of all-or-nothing success or failure.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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The following 10 points are a kind of new operating platform to serve as an antidote to the dichotomous/dualistic/all-or-nothing cognitive style that ruins our lives.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Reality At Its Practical (Not Theoretical) Best Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2011
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The following 10 points are a kind of new operating platform to serve as an antidote to the dichotomous/dualistic/all-or-nothing cognitive style that ruins our lives.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Reality At Its Practical (Not Theoretical) Best Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2011
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Due to the polarising nature of the issue and the dependence on case law, it could easily be an all-or-nothing situation.
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Too often, political decisions in the Muslim majority world have become an all-or-nothing, zero-sum game.
Haroon Moghul: The Revolutionary Fashion Police: What Not to Wear When Egypt's Government Goes Down Haroon Moghul 2011
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Appears to be an all-or-nothing film; every review either says it's great or it totally sucks.
Upcoming Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009
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Garage conversions don't have to be all-or-nothing propositions.
Boot car from the garage and reclaim valuable living space Ann Cameron Siegal 2011
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Too often, political decisions in the Muslim majority world have become an all-or-nothing, zero-sum game.
Haroon Moghul: The Revolutionary Fashion Police: What Not to Wear When Egypt's Government Goes Down Haroon Moghul 2011
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