Definition:
- (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
- (a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
- (a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
- (a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
- (a.) Authoritative; peremptory.
- (a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
- (a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
- (n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
Compare absolute with other words:
absolute vs. definitely
absolute vs. separate
absolute vs. indeed
absolute vs. overwhelming
absolute vs. virtual
absolute vs. unrivaled
absolute vs. immense
absolute vs. very
absolute vs. constitutional
absolute vs. dictatorial
absolute vs. comparable
absolute vs. nonpareil
absolute vs. final
absolute vs. imprescriptible
absolute vs. cocaine
absolute vs. adequate
absolute vs. evident
absolute vs. predominant
absolute vs. definitive
absolute vs. acquit
absolute vs. mobile
absolute vs. concrete
absolute vs. exclusive
absolute vs. inviolate
absolute vs. sheer
absolute vs. profound
absolute vs. infinite
absolute vs. definite
absolute vs. absolutely
absolute vs. libertarianism
absolute vs. categorical
absolute vs. downright
absolute vs. demonstration
absolute vs. entire
absolute vs. obsolete
absolute vs. amplitude
absolute vs. pure
absolute vs. complete
absolute vs. unconditioned
absolute vs. kaiser
absolute vs. vested
absolute vs. thorough
absolute vs. tyranny
absolute vs. tyrant
absolute vs. total
absolute vs. skepticism
absolute vs. stark
absolute vs. qualified
absolute vs. plenary
absolute vs. autocrat
absolute vs. monarch
absolute vs. mine
absolute vs. comparative
absolute vs. superlative
absolute vs. spirit
absolute vs. nature
absolute vs. god
absolute vs. infinity
absolute vs. optic
absolute vs. eccentric
absolute vs. osculating
absolute vs. ultimate
absolute vs. curvature
absolute vs. autocratic
absolute vs. arbitrary
absolute vs. unqualified
absolute vs. unrestricted
absolute vs. unlimited
absolute vs. unconditional
absolute vs. certain
absolute vs. positive
absolute vs. peremptory
absolute vs. supreme
absolute vs. despotic
absolute vs. unmitigated
absolute vs. utter
absolute vs. article
absolute vs. substantive
absolute vs. inflected
absolute vs. consummate
absolute vs. atypical
absolute vs. faultless
absolute vs. perfect
absolute vs. itself
absolute vs. connotation
absolute vs. collateral
absolute vs. relative
absolute vs. apparent
absolute vs. absolve
absolute vs. absolutist
absolute vs. absolutism
absolute vs. absolution