absolute
perfect or complete or pure
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,386 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,197 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- perfect or complete or pure absolute loyaltyabsolute silence
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers also: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer absolute freedoman absolute dimwit
- not limited by law an absolute monarch
- expressing finality with no implication of possible change an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority
- not capable of being violated or infringed also: infrangible, inviolable infrangible human rights
noun
- something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative no mortal being can influence the absolute
absolute in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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At any rate he expressed himself in a tone of absolute certainty.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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None wield such absolute power over others as those who think little about themselves.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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It came to me, I suppose, with that breath of the past when I was so great and absolute.
The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story · H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard · Chapter 1
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My failure never had what Mrs. Stormer would have called the banality of being relative—it was always admirably absolute.
Greville Fane · Henry James · Chapter 1