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. | |
ruin |
1. n. (sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle. | |
2. n. The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed. | |
The monastery has fallen into ruin. | |
3. n. Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction. | |
Gambling has been the ruin of many. | |
4. n. (obsolete) A fall or tumble. | |
5. n. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow. | |
the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes | |
6. n. Complete financial loss; bankruptcy. | |
7. v. to cause the fiscal ruin of. | |
With all these purchases, you surely mean to ruin us! | |
8. v. To destroy or make something no longer usable. | |
He ruined his new white slacks by accidentally spilling oil on them. | |
9. v. To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business. | |
The crooked stockbroker's fraudulent scheme ruined dozens of victims; some investors lost their life savings and even their houses. | |
10. v. To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil. | |
My car breaking down just as I was on the road ruined my vacation. | |
11. v. To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil. | |
12. v. (obsolete) To fall into a state of destruction. | |