Definition of Absolute

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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

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

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

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
Charles de Gaulle

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
William Osler

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. Eliot

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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