ABSOLUTE
Dictionary entry overview: What does absolute mean?
• ABSOLUTE (noun)
The noun ABSOLUTE has 1 sense:
1. something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control
Familiarity information: ABSOLUTE used as a noun is very rare.
• ABSOLUTE (adjective)
The adjective ABSOLUTE has 6 senses:
1. perfect or complete or pure
2. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
3. not limited by law
4. expressing finality with no implication of possible change
5. without conditions or limitations
6. not capable of being violated or infringed
Familiarity information: ABSOLUTE used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• ABSOLUTE (noun)
Meaning:
Something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context example:
no mortal being can influence the absolute
Hypernyms ("absolute" is a kind of...):
abstract; abstraction (a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance)
• ABSOLUTE (adjective)
Meaning:
Perfect or complete or pure
Context examples:
absolute loyalty / absolute silence / absolute truth / absolute alcohol
Similar:
living ((informal) absolute)
infinite (total and all-embracing)
independent (not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else)
implicit; unquestioning (being without doubt or reserve)
direct (lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact)
dead; utter (total)
Antonym:
relative (not absolute or complete)
Meaning:
Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
Synonyms:
sheer; out-and-out; right-down; downright; absolute; rank
Context examples:
absolute freedom / an absolute dimwit / a downright lie / out-and-out mayhem / an out-and-out lie / a rank outsider / many right-down vices / got the job through sheer persistence / sheer stupidity
Similar:
complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)
Meaning:
Not limited by law
Context example:
an absolute monarch
Similar:
arbitrary (based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice)
Meaning:
Expressing finality with no implication of possible change
Synonyms:
conclusive; absolute
Context examples:
an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority / inability to make a conclusive refusal
Similar:
unambiguous; unequivocal; univocal (admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion)
Meaning:
Without conditions or limitations
Synonyms:
unconditioned; total; absolute
Context example:
a total ban
Similar:
unconditional (not conditional)
Meaning:
Not capable of being violated or infringed
Synonyms:
infrangible; inviolable; absolute
Context example:
infrangible human rights
Similar:
inalienable; unalienable (incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another)
