absolute

adjective more absolute · absoluter · most absolute · absolutest · abs. · absolut

1. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. While Americans enjoy an almost absolute freedom to name their children whatever they please, in Germany the State (as public guardian of the good of the child) restricts parents [...]
2. Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic. An absolute monarch is free from all forcible restraint, and so far as he is absolute[,] from all legal restraints of positive laws.
3. Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory. The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, / With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.
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
7. Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt. Yet if the register is not to be absolute evidence of proprietorship, it is clear that some investigation of title would still be necessary.
8. archaic Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction). I am absolute ’twas very Cloten.
9. especially Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards. the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible; an absolute principle
10. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative. absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position
11. Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
12. Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
13. of a case form 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. of an adjective or possessive pronoun Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
15. of a comparative or superlative Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
16. of an adjective form Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative). Even when the absolute form of an adverb ends in -ly, the comparative and superlative are identical with the corresponding forms of the adjective: badly, worse, worst.
17. of a usually transitive verb Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
18. of Celtic languages Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.

    Opposite: conjunct

19. As measured using an absolute value. absolute deviation
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. formal, postpositional 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. A freehold property is an estate in fee simple absolute in possession.
24. obsolete Absolved; free.

Similar: categorical, unconditional, unlimited, unrestricted, autocratic, despotic, independent of references, relations to other things, standards, living · Opposite: conditional, limited, antonym(s) of “independent of references, relations to other things, standards”

noun absolutes · abs. · absolut

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. capitalized, usually A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego. Withdrawn as a Buddha he sat, watching the alien world from his perch in the absolute.
4. capitalized, usually The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
5. A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete. Complete concentration in a vacuum still at low temperature results in a concentrated flower oil, free from alcohol, the so-called absolute of enfleurage. The crude absolutes of enfleurage are usually of dark color and, because of their fat content, […]

noun Absolutes

1. That which is totally unconditioned, unrestricted, pure, perfect, or complete; that which can be thought of without relation to others.