Definitions for Absolute

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Absolute ab·so·lute

Spelling: [ab-suh-loot, ab-suh-loot]

IPA: /ˈæb səˌlut, ˌæb səˈlut/

Absolute is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 473 anagrams from letters in Absolute (abelostu).

Definitions for Absolute

noun

1. something that is not dependent upon external conditions for existence or for its specific nature, size, etc. (opposed to relative).
2. the absolute. something that is free from any restriction or condition. something that is independent of some or all relations. something that is perfect or complete. (in Hegelianism) the world process operating in accordance with the absolute idea.

adjective

1. free from imperfection; complete; perfect:
2. not mixed or adulterated; pure:
3. complete; outright:
4. free from restriction or limitation; not limited in any way:
5. unrestrained or unlimited by a constitution, counterbalancing group, etc., in the exercise of governmental power, especially when arbitrary or despotic:
6. viewed independently; not comparative or relative; ultimate; intrinsic:
7. positive; certain:
8. Grammar. relatively independent syntactically. The construction It being Sunday in It being Sunday, the family went to church is an absolute construction. (of a usually transitive verb) used without an object, as the verb give in The charity asked him to give. (of an adjective) having its noun understood, not expressed, as poor in The poor are always with us. characterizing the phonological form of a word or phrase occurring by itself, not influenced by surrounding forms, as not in is not (as opposed to isn't), or will in they will (as opposed to they'll). Compare sandhi.
9. Physics. independent of arbitrary standards or of particular properties of substances or systems: pertaining to a system of units, as the centimeter-gram-second system, based on some primary units, especially units of length, mass, and time. pertaining to a measurement based on an absolute zero or unit:
10. Education. noting or pertaining to the scale of a grading system based on an individual's performance considered as representing his or her knowledge of a given subject regardless of the performance of others in a group: Compare curve (def 10).
11. Climatology. noting or pertaining to the highest or lowest value of a meteorological quantity recorded during a given, usually long, period of time:
12. Mathematics. (of an inequality) indicating that the expression is true for all values of the variable, as x 2 + 1 > 0 for all real numbers x; unconditional. Compare conditional (def 4).
13. Computers. machine-specific and requiring no translation (opposed to symbolic):

Origin of Absolute

1350-1400; Middle English Latin absolūtus free, unrestricted, unconditioned (past participle of absolvere to absolve), equivalent to ab- ab-

Examples for Absolute

absolute directness was a part of her nature; she could die, but not manouvre.

Though the right to live is absolute, it is not unconditional.

What if their necessity of simulating it comes of its absolute necessity!

There is no good art, any more than there is good anything else in the absolute sense.

You have to risk it, and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool.

House rules require an absolute majority of members voting to choose a speaker.

Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.

It is there, not only with its help, but with its absolute knowledge of the right way for me to act.

They are to face oppression with humble persistence and absolute conviction.

And this song is just absolute genius and totally universal.