Absolute: Definition and part of speech

Absolute

  1. n. In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
  2. a. Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
  3. a. Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
  4. a. Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; — opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
  5. a. Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
  6. a. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
  7. a. Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
  8. a. Authoritative; peremptory.
  9. a. Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
  10. a. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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