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How to pronounce absolute
Say it like this: /ˈæb.səˌlut/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does absolute mean?
adjFree 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.
“The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, / With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.”
nounThat 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, condi
“moral absolutes”
In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
“Withdrawn as a Buddha he sat, watching the alien world from his perch in the absolute.”
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