Meaning

24 senses
  1. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.

  2. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.

    Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.

  3. Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.

    Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.

  4. Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.

    absolute purity, absolute liberty

    perfect or complete or pure

  5. Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.

    absolute alcohol

    абсолю́тныйabsoljútnyj

  6. Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.

    an absolute denial of all charges

    When caught, he told an absolute lie.

  7. Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.

  8. (especially)Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.

    the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible; an absolute principle

    Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.

    абсолю́тныйabsoljútnyj

  9. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.

    absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position

  10. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.

    Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.

  11. Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.

  12. 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".

    Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.

Examples

209 sentences
  1. That's the absolute truth.

    Це абсолютна правда. — Anjy

    ruЭто чистая правда! — papersaltserver

    deDas ist die reine Wahrheit. — MUIRIEL

  2. You're an absolute idiot.

    Ти повний ідіот. — deniko

    ruТы полный идиот. — sikmir

    deDu bist ein totaler Idiot. — halfdan

  3. A computer is an absolute necessity now.

    Нині комп'ютер є абсолютною необхідністю. — aandrusiak

    ruКомпьютер сейчас — абсолютная необходимость. — sharptoothed

    deComputer sind heutzutage eine absolute Notwendigkeit. — xtofu80

  4. Tom was an absolute angel.

    Том був абсолютним янголом. — rmdas

    deTom war ein absoluter Engel. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. I have absolute trust in you.

    ruЯ полностью вам доверяю. — marafon

    deIch habe restloses Vertrauen in dich. — MUIRIEL

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
free from limitations or conditions:
free from imperfection; complete in itself:
Русский
By meaning 3
free from limitations or conditions:
free from imperfection; complete in itself:
grammar: not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
free from limitations or conditions:
free from imperfection; complete in itself:

Origin

First attested around 1380. From Middle English absolut, from Middle French absolut, from

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.

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Forms

more absolute/absoluter, most absolute/absolutest

Synonyms

17 synonyms
free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions:unlimitedB2categoricalunconditionalunrestricted
livingA1standardsindependent of referencesrelations to other things
unlimited in power:autocraticdespotic
Close in meaning

Antonyms

7 antonyms
conjunctantonym(s) of “independent of referencesrelations to other thingsstandards”
free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions:conditionalC1limitedB1
relative

Word family

71 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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