absolute
Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
Adjective 4 meanings
Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
“absolute purity, absolute liberty”
Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
“absolute alcohol”
Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
“an absolute denial of all charges”
Noun 4 meanings
That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
“moral absolutes”
In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
Etymology
First attested around 1380. From Middle English absolut, from Middle French absolut, from Latin absolūtus (“unconditional; unfettered; completed”), perfect passive participle of absolvō (“loosen, set free, complete”), from ab (“away”) + solvo (“to loose”). Influenced in part by Old French absolu. Compare absolve.
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ABSOLUTE at a glance
ABSOLUTE has 8 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (A 1 + B 3 + S 1 + O 1 + L 1 + U 1 + T 1 + E 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,711 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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