Definition of absolete
1. absolute [ a ] perfect or complete or pure
Examples:
"absolute loyalty"
"absolute silence"
"absolute truth"
"absolute alcohol"
(High Fidelity, 11:10...)
Although lacking absolute verisimilitude , they supply the ear and the imagination with all necessary materials for re-creation of the original .
(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)
This seems somewhat shortsighted since if the absolute educational qualifications for membership which the organizations profess are ever enforced , the educator will have the molding of the entire profession in his hands .
(Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)
The antenna patterns and the power gain at the peak of the beam were both measured ( Mayer , McCullough , and Sloanaker , 1958 b ) , so that the absolute power sensitivity of the antenna beam over the solid_angle of the moon was known .
The result of the observations is ( in ` K ) **f where the phase angle , qt , is measured in degrees from new_moon and the probable errors include absolute as_well_as relative errors .
(Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)
`` Litigants and witnesses were put to the expense and inconvenience of going long distances to transact business ; public money spent ; justice delayed ; nothing accomplished , and the whole distribution of justice in this county seems to be an absolute farce '' .
Synonyms absolute Related Terms relative independent dead pure living syntactically_independent infinite very implicit direct2. absolute [ a ] complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
Examples:
"absolute freedom"
"a downright lie"
"out-and-out mayhem"
"a rank outsider"
"many right-down vices"
"sheer stupidity"
(The Family Fallout Shelter. Office of Civil and Defence...)
The shelter would provide almost absolute fallout protection .
This shelter , as shown on page 24 , would provide almost absolute protection from fallout radiation .
The shelter shown would provide almost absolute fallout protection .
Synonyms sheer absolute out-and-out right-down rank downright Related Terms complete3. absolute [ a ] complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
Examples:
"absolute freedom"
"an absolute dimwit"
"a downright lie"
"out-and-out mayhem"
"an out-and-out lie"
"a rank outsider"
"many right-down vices"
"got the jo
4. absolute [ n ] something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control
Examples:
"no mortal being can influence the absolute"
(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)
`` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped_out God 's beard and the Devil 's horns , but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes .
Synonyms absolute Related Terms abstraction5. absolute [ a ] not limited by law
Examples:
"an absolute monarch"
(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)
However , the sovereign was not Hobbes ' absolute monarch but rather the parliamentary sovereign of Austin .
Synonyms absolute Related Terms arbitrary6. absolute [ a ] without conditions or limitations
Examples:
"a total ban"
7. absolute [ a ] expressing finality with no implication of possible change
Examples:
"an absolute (or unequivocal) guarantee to respect the nation's authority"
"inability to make a conclusive (or unequivocal) refusal"
8. absolute [ a ] not capable of being violated or infringed
Examples:
"infrangible human rights"
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