absolute

absolute is a 8-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
2. adjective. Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
3. adjective. 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.
4. adjective. Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
5. adjective. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
6. adjective. Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
7. adjective. Authoritative; peremptory.
8. adjective. Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
9. adjective. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
10. noun. In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
11. 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"

12. adjective. perfect or complete or pure

    "absolute loyalty"

    "absolute silence"

13. adjective. not capable of being violated or infringed

    "infrangible human rights"

    Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable

14. adjective. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers

    "absolute freedom"

    "an absolute dimwit"

    Synonyms: downright, rank, sheer

15. adjective. not limited by law

    "an absolute monarch"

16. adjective. expressing finality with no implication of possible change

    "an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority"

Synonyms

infrangible, inviolable, downright, rank, sheer

Common word forms

absoluter, absolutes, absolutely, absolutest, absoluteness

Words from these letters

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