Absolute - Definition

adj 1: perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty";
"absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"
[ant: comparative, relative]
2: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes
used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an
absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem";
"an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down
vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer
stupidity" [syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a),
rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)]
3: not limited by law; "an absolute monarch"
4: expressing finality with no implication of possible change;
"an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority"
5: not capable of being violated or infringed; "infrangible
human rights" [syn: absolute, infrangible, inviolable]
n 1: something that is conceived or that exists independently
and not in relation to other things; something that does
not depend on anything else and is beyond human control;
something that is not relative; "no mortal being can
influence the absolute"