- Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled;
unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy,
sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an
absolute monarch. - Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as,
absolute perfection; absolute beauty. - 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. - Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other
being; self-existent; self-sufficing. - Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone;
unconditioned; non-relative. - Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. - Authoritative; peremptory. - Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol. - Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the
sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute,
under Ablative.
2 . Absolute
[ n.]
- In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at
infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at
infinity.
Meaning of 'absolute' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . absolute
[ n]
Meaning (1): - 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
Example in sentence:
no mortal being can influence the absolute
2 . absolute
[ a]
Meaning (2): - perfect or complete or pure
Example in sentence:
absolute alcohol;
absolute loyalty;
absolute silence;
absolute truth
3 . absolute
[ s]
Meaning (3): - complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
Example in sentence:
a downright lie;
a rank outsider;
absolute freedom;
an absolute dimwit;
an out-and-out lie;
got the job through sheer persistence;
many right-down vices;
out-and-out mayhem;
sheer stupidity
Meaning (4): - expressing finality with no implication of possible change
Example in sentence:
an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority
Meaning (5): - not limited by law
Example in sentence:
an absolute monarch
Meaning (6): - not capable of being violated or infringed
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