absolute

1. absolute (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.

Example: 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 [...]

2. absolute (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.: Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.

Example: An absolute monarch is free from all forcible restraint, and so far as he is absolute[,] from all legal restraints of positive laws.

3. absolute (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.: Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.: Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.

Example: The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, / With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.

4. absolute (noun) — sense 4

Definition: That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.

Example: moral absolutes

5. absolute (noun) — sense 5

Definition: In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

6. absolute (noun) — sense 6

Definition: A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.

Example: Withdrawn as a Buddha he sat, watching the alien world from his perch in the absolute.