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[ adjective ] perfect or complete or pure
Examples "absolute loyalty" "absolute silence" "absolute truth" "absolute alcohol" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Although lacking absolute verisimilitude , they supply the ear and the imagination with all necessary materials for re-creation of the original . (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)This seems somewhat shortsighted since if the absolute educational qualifications for membership which the organizations profess are ever enforced , the educator will have the molding of the entire profession in his hands . (Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)The antenna patterns and the power gain at the peak of the beam were both measured ( Mayer , McCullough , and Sloanaker , 1958 b ) , so that the absolute power sensitivity of the antenna beam over the solid_angle of the moon was known . The result of the observations is ( in ` K ) **f where the phase angle , �qt , is measured in degrees from new_moon and the probable errors include absolute as_well_as relative errors . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)`` Litigants and witnesses were put to the expense and inconvenience of going long distances to transact business ; public money spent ; justice delayed ; nothing accomplished , and the whole distribution of justice in this county seems to be an absolute farce '' . Related terms relative independent dead pure living syntactically_independent infinite very implicit direct |
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[ adjective ] complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
Synonyms Examples "absolute freedom" "a downright lie" "out-and-out mayhem" "a rank outsider" "many right-down vices" "sheer stupidity" Used in print (The Family Fallout Shelter. Office of Civil and Defence...)The shelter would provide almost absolute fallout protection . This shelter , as shown on page 24 , would provide almost absolute protection from fallout radiation . The shelter shown would provide almost absolute fallout protection . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
Synonyms Examples "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 jo Related terms |
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[ noun ] something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control
Examples "no mortal being can influence the absolute" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)`` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped_out God 's beard and the Devil 's horns , but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] not limited by law
Examples "an absolute monarch" Used in print (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)However , the sovereign was not Hobbes ' absolute monarch but rather the parliamentary sovereign of Austin . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] without conditions or limitations
Synonyms Examples "a total ban" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] expressing finality with no implication of possible change
Synonyms Examples "an absolute (or unequivocal) guarantee to respect the nation's authority" "inability to make a conclusive (or unequivocal) refusal" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] not capable of being violated or infringed
Synonyms Examples "infrangible human rights" Related terms |
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