1. absolute - Noun
2. absolute - Adjective
3. absolute - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf you have absolute faith in God, you have no need to ask for, or worry about, anything, for He already knows and understands. Paisios of Mount Athos
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. Eric Hoffer
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. Mikhail Bakunin
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
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. Woodrow Wilson
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. English Proverb