absolute

Meaning

Adj

1. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
2. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
3. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
4. Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
5. Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
6. Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
7. Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
8. (archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
9. (especially) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
10. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
11. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
12. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
13. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
14. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
15. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
16. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
17. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
18. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
19. As measured using an absolute value.
20. Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
21. Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
22. Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
23. (formal, postpositional) Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.
24. (obsolete) Absolved; free.

Noun

1. 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.
2. In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
3. (capitalized, usually) A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
4. (capitalized, usually) The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
5. A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.

Opposite of

conjunct

Synonyms

complete

utter

unconditional

perfect

total

downright

sheer

arrant

implicit

pure

positive

full

definite

clear

consummate

infrangible

pronoun

stark

unquestioning

true

unmitigated

categorical

strict

outright

plenary

thorough

rank

inviolable

real

dead

💀

genuine

unconditioned

unlimited

thoroughgoing

chief

certain

absolutely

supreme

resolute

abs

quite

boundless

regular

sole

out-and-out

peremptory

limitless

decisive

decided

mere

Translations

absolu

absoluto

absoluut

absoluto

assoluto

absolut

absolut

mutlak

απόλυτος

pur

parfait

complet

illimité

absolutus

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæb.sə.luːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: absolut

In summary

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.