Absolute vs. Immense
Absoluteadjective
Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
Absoluteadjective
Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
Absoluteadjective
Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
Absoluteadjective
Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
Absoluteadjective
Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
Absoluteadjective
Positive, certain; unquestionable.
Absoluteadjective
(archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
Absoluteadjective
Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
Absoluteadjective
(physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
Absoluteadjective
Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
Absoluteadjective
Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
Absoluteadjective
(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, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".
Absoluteadjective
(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 nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.
Absoluteadjective
(of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
Absoluteadjective
Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
Absoluteadjective
Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
Absoluteadjective
(of a usually-transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
Absoluteadjective
Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of articles or compounded with a preverb.
Absoluteadjective
(math) As measured using an absolute value.
Absoluteadjective
(math) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
Absoluteadjective
(education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
Absoluteadjective
Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
Absoluteadjective
(obsolete) Absolved; free.
Absolutenoun
That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental.
Absolutenoun
Anything that is absolute.
Absolutenoun
(geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
Absolutenoun
A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
Absolutenoun
The unity of spirit and nature; God.
Absolutenoun
The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced.
Absolutenoun
Concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes.
Absoluteadjective
Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
Absoluteadjective
Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
Absoluteadjective
Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; - opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
Absoluteadjective
Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
Absoluteadjective
Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
Absoluteadjective
Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
Absoluteadjective
Authoritative; peremptory.
Absoluteadjective
Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
Absoluteadjective
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
Absolutenoun
In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
Absolutenoun
something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control;
Absoluteadjective
perfect or complete or pure;
Absoluteadjective
complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;
Absoluteadjective
not limited by law;
Absoluteadjective
expressing finality with no implication of possible change;
Absoluteadjective
without conditions or limitations;
Absoluteadjective
not capable of being violated or infringed;
Immenseadjective
Huge, gigantic, very large.
Immenseadjective
(colloquial) Supremely good.
Immenseadjective
Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.
Immenseadjective
unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope;
Immenseadjective
extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree
