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English adjective: absolute | |||
| 1. | absolute perfect or complete or pure | ||
| Samples | Absolute loyalty. Absolute silence. Absolute truth. Absolute alcohol. | ||
| Similar | direct, implicit, infinite, living, unquestioning | ||
| Antonyms | relative, comparative | ||
| 2. | absolute complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer | ||
| Similar | complete | ||
| Antonyms | incomplete, uncomplete | ||
| 3. | absolute not limited by law | ||
| Samples | An absolute monarch. | ||
| Similar | arbitrary | ||
| Antonyms | nonarbitrary, unarbitrary | ||
| 4. | absolute expressing finality with no implication of possible change | ||
| Samples | An absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority. | ||
| Similar | unambiguous, unequivocal, univocal | ||
| Antonyms | ambiguous, equivocal | ||
| 5. | absolute not capable of being violated or infringed | ||
| Samples | Infrangible human rights. | ||
| Synonyms | infrangible, inviolable | ||
| Similar | inalienable, unalienable | ||
| Antonyms | alienable | ||
English noun: absolute | |||
| 1. | absolute (cognition) 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 | ||
| Samples | No mortal being can influence the absolute. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | abstract, abstraction | ||
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