English Dictionary

absolute

/ˈæb.səˌluːt/

adj

Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.

She has absolute control over the project.

意味（1）

Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.

意味（2）

Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.

An absolute monarch is free from all forcible restraint, and so far as he is absolute[,] from all legal restraints of positive laws.

意味（3）

Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.

absolute purity, absolute liberty

意味（4）

Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.

absolute alcohol

意味（5）

Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.

When caught, he told an absolute lie.

意味（6）

(very occasionally postpositive) Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.

Yet if the register is not to be absolute evidence of proprietorship, it is clear that some investigation of title would still be necessary.

意味（7）

(archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).

I am absolute ’twas very Cloten.

意味（8）

(especially philosophy) 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

意味（9）

Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.

意味（10）

Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.

意味（11）

(of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.

意味（12）

(of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".

意味（13）

(of a comparative or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".

意味（14）

(of an adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).

Even when the absolute form of an adverb ends in -ly, the comparative and superlative are identical with the corresponding forms of the adjective: badly, worse, worst.

意味（15）

(of a usually transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".

意味（16）

(of Celtic languages) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.

意味（17）

(mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.

absolute deviation

意味（18）

(mathematics) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.

意味（19）

(education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.

意味（20）

(art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.

absolute music

意味（21）

(law, postpositive, formal) Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.

A freehold property is an estate in fee simple absolute in possession.

意味（22）

(obsolete) Absolved; free.