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absolute
     1. adj. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
     2. adj.          Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
     3. adj.         # Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
     4. adj. Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
           absolute purity, absolute liberty
     5. adj. Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
           absolute alcohol
     6. adj. Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
           When caught, he told an absolute lie.   an absolute denial of all charges
     7. adj. Positive, certain; unquestionable.
     8. adj. (archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
     9. adj. (especially, philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
           the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible, an absolute principle
           Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.
     10. adj. (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
           absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position
     11. adj.          Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
     12. adj.          Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
     13. adj. (grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, l
     14. adj.          (of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominati
     15. adj.          (of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
     16. adj.          (of a comparative, or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with re
     17. adj.          (of an, adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
     18. adj.          (of a usually-transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
     19. adj.          (Irish, Welsh) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of articles or compounded with a preverb.
     20. adj. (math) As measured using an absolute value.
           absolute deviation
           absolute square
           mean absolute difference
     21. adj. (math) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
     22. adj. (education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
     23. adj. (art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
           absolute music
     24. adj. (obsolete) Absolved; free.
     25. n. That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental.
           moral absolutes
     26. n. Anything that is absolute.
     27. n. (geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
     28. n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
     29. n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) The unity of spirit and nature; God.
     30. n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced.
     31. n. Concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes.
prattle
     1. v. To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
     2. n. Silly, childish talk; babble.
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