Absolute vs. Relative

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;

Relativeadjective

Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.

Relativeadjective

Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.

Relativeadjective

(grammar) That relates to an antecedent.

Relativeadjective

(music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.

Relativeadjective

Relevant; pertinent; related.

Relativeadjective

Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.

Relativenoun

Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.

Relativenoun

(linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

Relativeadjective

Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

Relativeadjective

Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.

Relativeadjective

Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.

Relativeadjective

Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other.

Relativenoun

One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.

Relativenoun

a person related by blood or marriage;

Relativenoun

an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

Relativeadjective

not absolute or complete;

Relativeadjective

properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to';

Relativeadjective

considered in relation or in proportion to something else

Relativeadjective

existing or possessing a specified characteristic only in comparison to something else; not absolute

Relativeadjective

denoting a pronoun, determiner, or adverb that refers to an expressed or implied antecedent and attaches a subordinate clause to it, e.g. which, who.

Relativeadjective

(of a clause) attached to an antecedent by a relative word.

Relativeadjective

(of major and minor keys) having the same key signature.

Relativeadjective

(of a service rank) corresponding in grade to another in a different service.

Relativenoun

a person connected by blood or marriage

Relativenoun

a species related to another by common origin

Relativenoun

a relative pronoun, determiner, or adverb.

Relativenoun

a term or concept which is dependent on something else.