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absolutest

absolutest is the superlative form of absolute.

absolutest is the misspelling of absolutist.

Meaning of absolute

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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Meaning of absolutist

Adjective

absolutist (comparative more absolutist, superlative most absolutist)

  1. Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; uncompromising.
    • The best and the worst features of the communal regime are illustrated in the resistance of the Lombard cities to Frederic Barbarossa, the first Emperor who formulated and applied to Italy a scheme of absolutist government.1911, H. W. Carless Davis, Medieval Europe

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Questions about absolutest

What is absolutest the superlative form of?
Absolutest is the superlative form of absolute.

Words near absolutest in the dictionary

  1. absoluteness
  2. absolutenesses
  3. absoluter
  4. absolutes
  5. absolutes of enfleurage
  6. absolutest
  7. absolution
  8. Absolution Day
  9. absolutionary
  10. absolutions
  11. absolutisation

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