Absolute
Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
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.
Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
Authoritative; peremptory.
Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
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Absolute Quotations
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
Lewis Carroll
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. Salinger
Absolute Translations
absolute in Dutch is absoluut, onvermengd
absolute in French is ineluctable, absolu, complet
absolute in German is absolut, absolut, unbedingt
absolute in Italian is intero, assolutamente
absolute in Portuguese is absoluto
absolute in Spanish is cabal, absoluto, completo, absolut
absolute in Swedish is absolut
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