'absolute' definitions:
Definition of 'absolute'
From: WordNet
adjective
Perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol" [ant: comparative, relative]
adjective
Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" [syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)]
adjective
Not limited by law; "an absolute monarch"
adjective
Expressing finality with no implication of possible change; "an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority"
adjective
Not capable of being violated or infringed; "infrangible human rights" [syn: absolute, infrangible, inviolable]
noun
Something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"
Synonyms of 'absolute'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- abstract,
- accurate,
- actual,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- admitting no exception,
- admitting no question,
- affirmative,
- affirmatory,
- all right,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- all-powerful,
- almighty,
- alone,
- apodictic,
- arbitrary,
- aristocratic,
- arrant,
- arrogant,
- ascendant,
- assertative,
- assertional,
- assertive,
- assuring,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- autarchic,
- authentic,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- authorized,
- autocratic,
- autonomous,
- azygous,
- bare,
- based on,
- beyond all praise,
- binding,
- born,
- bossy,
- bound,
- boundless,
- broad-based,
- bureaucratic,
- categorical,
- celibate,
- certain,
- circumstantial,
- civic,
- civil,
- clarified,
- classical,
- clean,
- clear,
- clear and distinct,
- clear as day,
- clothed with authority,
- commanding,
- competent,
- complete,
- comprehensive,
- compulsory,
- conclusive,
- concrete,
- confirmable,
- congenital,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- constitutional,
- consummate,
- controlling,
- convictional,
- convincing,
- correct,
- crass,
- cumulative,
- damning,
- de facto,
- dead right,
- decided,
- decisive,
- declarative,
- declaratory,
- decretory,
- deep-dyed,
- defectless,
- defined,
- definite,
- definitive,
- democratic,
- demonstrable,
- demonstratable,
- despotic,
- detailed,
- determinate,
- determinative,
- dictated,
- dictatorial,
- different,
- distilled,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- documentary,
- documented,
- dominant,
- domineering,
- downright,
- duly constituted,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- egregious,
- eminent,
- emphatic,
- empowered,
- entailed,
- entire,
- esoteric,
- especial,
- eternal,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- ex officio,
- ex parte,
- exceptional,
- exhaustive,
- explicit,
- express,
- extraordinary,
- eye-witness,
- factual,
- fascist,
- faultless,
- federal,
- federalist,
- federalistic,
- feudal,
- final,
- finished,
- first and last,
- firsthand,
- fixed,
- flagrant,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- flawless,
- for real,
- founded on,
- free,
- full,
- genuine,
- glaring,
- global,
- governing,
- governmental,
- great,
- grinding,
- gross,
- grounded on,
- gubernatorial,
- hard,
- hard-and-fast,
- haste,
- hearsay,
- hegemonic,
- hegemonistic,
- heteronomous,
- high-handed,
- historical,
- honest-to-God,
- ideal,
- illimitable,
- immaculate,
- impair,
- impeccable,
- imperative,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- implicit,
- important,
- imposed,
- impressive,
- inappealable,
- incontestable,
- incontrovertible,
- indefectible,
- indefective,
- independent,
- indicative,
- indisputable,
- individual,
- indubitable,
- ineluctable,
- inevitable,
- infallible,
- infinite,
- influential,
- inner,
- intensive,
- intimate,
- intolerable,
- irrefragable,
- irrefutable,
- irreproachable,
- irresistible,
- irrevocable,
- just,
- just right,
- leading,
- letter-perfect,
- limitless,
- lone,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- magistral,
- mandated,
- mandatory,
- masterful,
- material,
- matriarchal,
- matriarchic,
- meticulous,
- mighty,
- minute,
- momentous,
- monarchal,
- monarchial,
- monarchic,
- monocratic,
- must,
- naked,
- neat,
- necessary,
- no strings,
- noteworthy,
- nuncupative,
- obligatory,
- odd,
- official,
- OK,
- okay,
- oligarchal,
- oligarchic,
- omnibus,
- omnipotent,
- omnipresent,
- one and only,
- only,
- only-begotten,
- open,
- oppressive,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- overbearing,
- overruling,
- overwhelming,
- parliamentarian,
- parliamentary,
- particular,
- patriarchal,
- patriarchic,
- peerless,
- peremptory,
- perfect,
- perfectly sure,
- personal,
- persuasive,
- pervasive,
- plain,
- plenary,
- plenipotentiary,
- plumb,
- pluralistic,
- political,
- positive,
- potent,
- powerful,
- precious,
- precise,
- predestined,
- predetermined,
- predicational,
- predicative,
- preeminent,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- prestigious,
- presumptive,
- private,
- probative,
- profound,
- prominent,
- pronounced,
- proper,
- provable,
- puissant,
- pure,
- purified,
- radical,
- rank,
- ranking,
- real,
- rectified,
- regular,
- reliable,
- repressive,
- republican,
- required,
- respective,
- right,
- round,
- ruling,
- satisfactory,
- satisfying,
- self-evident,
- self-governing,
- senior,
- several,
- severe,
- shattering,
- sheer,
- shocking,
- significant,
- simple,
- singular,
- sinless,
- sole,
- solipsistic,
- sovereign,
- special,
- specific,
- spotless,
- stainless,
- stark,
- stark-staring,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straight-up-and-down,
- strict,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- superior,
- superlative,
- suppressive,
- supreme,
- sure,
- sure-enough,
- surpassing,
- sweeping,
- symptomatic,
- taintless,
- telling,
- testable,
- the veriest,
- theocratic,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through-and-through,
- total,
- totalitarian,
- transcendent,
- transcendental,
- transparent,
- true,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannous,
- ubiquitous,
- ultimate,
- unadulterated,
- unalloyed,
- unambiguous,
- unanswerable,
- unbearable,
- unblemished,
- unblended,
- unbound,
- unbounded,
- uncircumscribed,
- uncombined,
- uncompounded,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- unconfined,
- unconfutable,
- unconscionable,
- unconstrained,
- uncontaminated,
- uncorrupted,
- undeniable,
- undiluted,
- undoubting,
- unequivocal,
- unfaultable,
- unflawed,
- unfortified,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- unimpeachable,
- unique,
- universal,
- univocal,
- unleavened,
- unlimited,
- unmeasured,
- unmingled,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unmixed,
- unpaired,
- unqualified,
- unquestionable,
- unquestioning,
- unrefutable,
- unrelieved,
- unrepeated,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestricted,
- unsophisticated,
- unspoiled,
- unspotted,
- untainted,
- untinged,
- unwaivable,
- utter,
- valid,
- verifiable,
- veritable,
- weighty,
- whole,
- wholesale,
- wide-open,
- without appeal,
- without exception,
- without reserve,
- without strings
Words containing 'absolute'
- absolutely,
- absoluteness,
- absolution,
- absolutism,
- Absolute constant,
- Absolute curvature,
- Absolute equation,
- Absolute space,
- Absolute superlative,
- Absolute temperature,
- Absolute time,
- Absolute zero,
- Genitive absolute,
- ablative absolute,
- absolute alcohol,
- absolute blocking,
- absolute ceiling,
- absolute frequency,
- absolute joule,
- absolute magnitude,
- absolute majority,
- absolute pitch,
- absolute scale,
- absolute threshold,
- absolute value,
- absolute viscosity,
- bar absolute,
- Absolute refractive index