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absolute

About 34.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller} 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.
  2. adjective 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.
  3. adjective Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
  4. adjective Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
    absolute purity, absolute liberty
  5. adjective Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
    absolute alcohol
  6. adjective Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
    an absolute denial of all charges
  7. adjective Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
  8. adjective Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).

Similar words

unconditioned unconditional unquestioning undiluted unmixed inviolable pure infrangible inalienable infinite

Often followed by

and value power necessity truth temperature values terms certainty

Word family

absoluteness absolutenesses absoluter absolutes absolutest

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