absolute

absolute has 16 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. 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"
• a.. perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"