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  1. 1. a. Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. 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. Source: opted
  4. 4. a. Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing. Source: opted
  5. 5. a. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative. Source: opted
  6. 6. a. Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. Source: opted
  7. 7. a. Authoritative; peremptory. Source: opted
  8. 8. a. Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol. Source: opted
  9. 9. a. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative. Source: opted
  10. 10. n. In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity. Source: opted
  11. 11. adj. perfect or complete or pure Source: wordnet
  12. 12. adj. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers Source: wordnet

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