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How to pronounce absolute in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms infrangible, inviolable
Derivation absoluteness
Type Words
Synonyms downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer
Derivation absoluteness


absolute freedom.
an absolute dimwit.
Type Words
Derivation absoluteness


an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority.
Type Words
Derivation absoluteness


an absolute monarch.
Type Words
Derivation absoluteness


absolute loyalty.
absolute silence.
absolute truth.
absolute alcohol.
Type Words
Type of abstraction, abstract


no mortal being can influence the absolute.

Examples of absolute

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That chills the atoms until they are a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.
From the businessweek.com
None of my research could have prepared me for the absolute despair and sadness.
From the businessweek.com
You can tell by your children if they are in pain and she was in absolute agony.
From the telegraph.co.uk
An absolute bare-bones printer, the ML-1915 turns out only A4 monochrome images.
From the telegraph.co.uk
All of which is a roundabout way of admitting the absolute partiality of my 100.
From the independent.co.uk
Qatar's ruling emir holds near absolute power in the small Persian Gulf country.
From the dailyherald.com
For example, the various methods used to determine relative and absolute dating.
From the guardian.co.uk
He's scored some absolute belters since coming into the team after Coppell left.
From the getreading.co.uk
She is the quiet achiever of the club, and an absolute credit to her team mates.
From the dailyliberal.com.au
More examples
  • Perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"
  • Something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"
  • Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "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 job through sheer persistence"; "sheer ...
  • Not limited by law; "an absolute monarch"
  • Expressing finality with no implication of possible change; "an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority"
  • Not capable of being violated or infringed; "infrangible human rights"
  • "Absolute" is the 7th album released by the Japanese metal band AION. (BMG claims that it is the 4th album by them. That's due their first albums were released from a different label). Absolute is not a metal album, but includes other genres as J-rock and melodic Power Metal. ...
  • Used in perfumery and aromatherapy, absolutes are similar to essential oils. They are concentrated, highly-aromatic, oily mixtures extracted from plants. ...
  • In linguistics, an absolute construction is a grammatical construction standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence elements...