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absolute.

Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈæb.sə.luːt/UK/æb.səˈluːt/UK/ˈæp-/UK/ˈæb.sə.ljuːt/UK, archaic
  1. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.

  2. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.

  3. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic. Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.

  4. Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.

    absolute purity, absolute liberty
  5. Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.

    absolute alcohol
  6. Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.

    an absolute denial of all charges
    When caught, he told an absolute lie.
  7. Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.

  8. Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).

    archaic
  9. Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.

    especially
    the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible; an absolute principle
    Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.
  10. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.

    absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position
  11. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative. Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.

  12. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative. Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.

  13. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left". Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.

  14. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left". Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".

  15. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left". Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".

  16. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left". Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).

  17. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left". Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".

  18. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left". Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.

  19. As measured using an absolute value.

    absolute deviation
    absolute square
  20. Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.

  21. Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.

  22. Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.

    absolute music
  23. Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.

    formal · postpositional
    A freehold property is an estate in fee simple absolute in possession.
  24. Absolved; free.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

First attested around 1380. From Middle English absolut, from Middle French absolut, from Latin absolūtus (“unconditional; unfettered; completed”), perfect passive participle of absolvō (“loosen, set free, complete”), from ab (“away”) + solvo (“to loose”). Influenced in part by Old French absolu. Compare absolve.

noun/ˈæb.sə.luːt/UK/æb.səˈluːt/UK/ˈæp-/UK/ˈæb.sə.ljuːt/UK, archaic
  1. That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.

    moral absolutes
  2. In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

  3. A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.

    capitalized · usually
  4. The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.

    capitalized · usually
  5. A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.

Where this word comes from

First attested around 1380. From Middle English absolut, from Middle French absolut, from Latin absolūtus (“unconditional; unfettered; completed”), perfect passive participle of absolvō (“loosen, set free, complete”), from ab (“away”) + solvo (“to loose”). Influenced in part by Old French absolu. Compare absolve.

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