absolut

Adjective

absolute (comparative more absolute or absoluter, superlative most absolute or absolutest)

1. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
   • While Americans enjoy an almost absolute freedom to name their children whatever they please, in Germany the State (as public guardian of the good of the child) restricts parents [...]2005, Names, volume 53, page 238
   1. 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.1846, George Gillespie, The Presbyterian's Armoury
   2. Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
      • The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, / With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
2. Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
   • absolute purity, absolute liberty
3. Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
   • absolute alcohol
4. Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
   • an absolute denial of all charges

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