absolute
/ˈæb.səˌlut/ adjective B1- Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
- 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.
- 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· When caught, he told an absolute lie.
- Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
- Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards. · the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible; an absolute principle
Comparative absoluter · Superlative absolutest
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I knocked him down, and the police have him in custody; but I can tell you with the most absolute confidence that no possible connection will ever be traced between the gentleman upon whose front teeth I have barked my knuckles and the retiring mathematical coach, who is, I daresay, working out problems upon a blackboard ten miles away.
"You are absolute plate-glass.
But absolute secrecy was necessary, or even in this quiet country-side there would have been an outcry, and I should have been dragged to my horrible doom.
I was tutor to his nephews, who are dead; and when he was alone in the world, I tried by absolute devotion to his will, to make up to him all he had done for me during ten years of unremitting kindness.
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