absolute

  • (noun): That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental.
  • (noun): Anything that is absolute.
  • (noun): In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
  • (noun): (usually capitalized) A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
  • (noun): (usually capitalized) The unity of spirit and nature; God.
  • (noun): (usually capitalized) The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced.
  • (noun): A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
  • (adjective): Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
  • (adjective): Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
  • (adjective): Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
  • (adjective): Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
  • (adjective): Positive, certain; unquestionable.
  • (adjective): Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
  • (adjective): Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
  • (adjective): Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
  • (adjective): (grammar) 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".
  • (adjective): As measured using an absolute value.
  • (adjective): Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
  • (adjective): Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
  • (adjective): Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
  • (adjective): Absolved; free.
  • moral absolutes
  • 1658, Samuel Hoard, God[']s Love to Mankind, Manifested, by disprooving his absolute decree for their damnation
  • absolute purity, absolute liberty
  • absolute alcohol
  • When caught, he told an absolute lie.   an absolute denial of all charges