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say it: AB-suh-loot
absolute is an adjective and noun meaning "perfect or complete or pure". It carries 6 recorded senses.
complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
“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”
expressing finality with no implication of possible change
“an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority”
not capable of being violated or infringed
“infrangible human rights”
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
“no mortal being can influence the absolute”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for absolute come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.