adjective

1. perfect; complete; whole absolute silence
2. not mixed; pure absolute alcohol
3. not limited by a constitution, parliament, etc.; unrestricted an absolute ruler
4. positive; definite an absolute certainty
5. not doubted; actual; real an absolute truth
6. not dependent on, or without reference to, anything else; not relative
7. Gram.
   1. forming part of a sentence, but not in the usual relations of syntax: in the sentence “The weather being good, they went,” the weather being good is an absolute construction
   2. used without an explicit object: said of a verb usually transitive, such as steal in the sentence “Thieves steal.”
   3. used alone, with the noun understood: said of a pronoun or an adjective, such as ours and brave in the sentence “Ours are the brave.”
8. Law without condition or encumbrance absolute ownership
9. Physics of the absolute temperature scale

Etymology: ME absolut < L absolutus, pp. of absolvere, to loosen from: see absolve

noun