"absolute" Definition

Definitions for the word "absolute" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. a.
Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. a.
Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. a.
Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. a.
Authoritative; peremptory.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. a.
Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. a.
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. adj.
1 complete, utter (absolute bliss). 2 unconditional (absolute authority). 3 despotic (absolute monarch). 4 not relative or comparative (absolute standard). 5 gram. A (of a construction) syntactically independent of the rest of the sentence, as in dinner being over, we left the table. B (of an adjective or transitive verb) without an expressed noun or object (e.g. The deaf, guns kill). 6 (of a legal decree etc.) Final. n. Philos. (prec. By the) that which can exist independently of anything else. [latin: related to *absolve]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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