Absolute vs. Superlative
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;
Superlativenoun
The highest extent or degree of something.
Superlativenoun
(grammar) The form of an adjective that expresses which of several items has the highest degree of the quality expressed by the adjective; in English, formed by appending "-est" to the end of the adjective (for some short adjectives only) or putting "most" before it.
Superlativenoun
(informal) An adjective used to praise something exceptional.
Superlativeadjective
Exceptionally good; of the highest quality; superb.
Superlativeadjective
(grammar) Of or relating to a superlative.
Superlativeadjective
Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the superlative glory of the divine character.
Superlativeadjective
Expressing the highest or lowest degree of the quality, manner, etc., denoted by an adjective or an adverb. The superlative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -est, most, or least; as, highest, most pleasant, least bright.
Superlativenoun
That which is highest or most eminent; the utmost degree.
Superlativenoun
The superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs; also, a form or word by which the superlative degree is expressed; as, strongest, wisest, most stormy, least windy, are all superlatives.
Superlativenoun
an exaggerated expression (usually of praise);
Superlativenoun
the highest level or degree attainable;
Superlativenoun
the superlative form of an adjective;
Superlativeadjective
highest in quality
