Word Meaning

absolute definition and meaning

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.
a. Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
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.
a. Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
a. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
a. Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
a. Authoritative; peremptory.
a. Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
a. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
n. In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

Crossword clues for absolute

- Complete
- Complete thus ... medieval guitar following sailor
- Inexplicit
- Out-and-out
- Total
- Total (disaster)
- Undoubted (proof)
- Unqualified description of a despot’s power
- Utmost