| Definitions of 'absolute' |
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1. (adj) absolute
something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative
"no mortal being can influence the absolute"
2. (adj) absolute
perfect or complete or pure
"absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"
3. (adj) absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)
complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
"absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"
4. (adj) absolute
not limited by law
"an absolute monarch"
5. (adj) absolute
expressing finality with no implication of possible change
"an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority"
6. (adj) absolute, infrangible, inviolable
not capable of being violated or infringed
"infrangible human rights"
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| Definitions of 'absolute' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (adj) absolute
loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch
2. (adj) absolute
complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty
3. (adj) absolute
viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space
4. (adj) absolute
loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing
5. (adj) absolute
capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative
6. (adj) absolute
positive; clear; certain; not doubtful
7. (adj) absolute
authoritative; peremptory
8. (adj) absolute
pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol
9. (adj) absolute
not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative
10. (noun) absolute
in a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity
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