absolute
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
absolute /ˈabsəluːt/
▶adjective
- 1 not qualified or diminished; total.
■ not subject to any limitation of power: an absolute ruler.
- 2 not relative or comparative: absolute moral standards.
- 3 Grammar (of a construction) syntactically independent of the rest of the sentence, as in dinner being over, we left the table.
■ (of a transitive verb) used without an expressed object (e.g. guns kill).
■ (of an adjective) used without an expressed noun (e.g. the brave).
- 4 Law (of a decree) final. See also decree absolute.
– derivatives
absoluteness noun,
absolutization (or absolutisation) noun,
absolutize (or absolutise) verb.
absoluteness noun,
absolutization (or absolutisation) noun,
absolutize (or absolutise) verb.
'absolute' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablative absolute
- absolute alcohol
- absolute magnitude
- absolute majority
- absolute music
- absolute pitch
- absolute temperature
- absolute title
- absolute value
- absolute zero
- absolutism
- autocracy
- autocrat
- blank
- certitude
- Charles's law
- dead
- decree absolute
- despot
- diametrical
- dictator
- entire
- fair
- fee simple
- freehold
- gas equation
- Gibbs free energy
- God's truth
- imperium
- insult
- Kelvin scale
- literal
- modulus
- moral law
- mystic
- out and out
- perfect
- plenary
- plenipotentiary
- plurality
- privilege
- programme music
- proof positive
- qualify
- realism
- reality
- relativism
- relativity
- right
