1. Adjective
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. Adjective
Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
3. Adjective
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. Adjective
Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
5. Adjective
Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
6. Adjective
Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
7. Adjective
Authoritative; peremptory.
8. Adjective
Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
9. Adjective
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
10. Noun
In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
11. Adjective
Not qualified or diminished in any way
12. Adjective
expressing finality with no implication of possible change; "an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority"
Vocabulary classified under Emotion and tone
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