adj, noun ·Top 500 ·Middle school level
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"moral absolutes"
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"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 [...]"
"An absolute monarch is free from all forcible restraint, and so far as he is absolute[,] from all legal restraints of positive laws."
"The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, / With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed."
"absolute purity, absolute liberty"
"absolute alcohol"
"an absolute denial of all charges"
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"I am absolute ’twas very Cloten."
"the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible; an absolute principle"
"absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position"
"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."
"absolute deviation"
"absolute music"
"A freehold property is an estate in fee simple absolute in possession."
"We have absolute proof that smoking is bad for your health."
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.
Common synonyms include: sheer, absolutist, absolutistic, abstract, accurate, actual.
We have absolute proof that smoking is bad for your health.
Pronounced /ˈæb.səˌlut/.
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.