Absolute vs. Absolut

By Muazma Batool — Published on March 27, 2023

Difference Between Absolute and Absolut
◉Absolute
Of, relating to, or being a word, phrase, or construction that is isolated syntactically from the rest of a sentence, as the referee having finally arrived in The referee having finally arrived, the game began.
◉Absolute
Of, relating to, or being a transitive verb when its object is implied but not stated. For example, inspires in We have a teacher who inspires is an absolute verb.
◉Absolute
Of, relating to, or being an adjective or pronoun that stands alone when the noun it modifies is being implied but not stated. For example, in Theirs were the best, theirs is an absolute pronoun and best is an absolute adjective.
◉Absolute
Relating to measurements or units of measurement derived from fundamental units of length, mass, and time.
◉Absolute
Something regarded as the ultimate and transcendent basis of all thought and being. Used with the.
◉Absolute
Something regarded as exceeding or transcending everything else to the point of being independent and unrelated.
◉Absolute
Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
◉Absolute
Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
◉Absolute
Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
absolute purity, absolute liberty
◉Absolute
Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
When caught, he told an absolute lie.
an absolute denial of all charges
You're an absolute genius!
◉Absolute
(archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
◉Absolute
Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible, an absolute principle
Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.
◉Absolute
(physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position
◉Absolute
Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
◉Absolute
(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".
◉Absolute
(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.
◉Absolute
(of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
◉Absolute
Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
◉Absolute
(of a usually transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
◉Absolute
(of Celtic languages) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.
◉Absolute
(math) As measured using an absolute value.
absolute deviation
absolute square
mean absolute difference
◉Absolute
(math) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
◉Absolute
(education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
◉Absolute
Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
absolute music
◉Absolute
Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or certain kinds of occurrence.
A freehold property is an estate in fee simple absolute in possession.
◉Absolute
That 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, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
moral absolutes
◉Absolute
(geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
◉Absolute
A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
◉Absolute
The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
◉Absolute
(chemistry) A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
◉Absolute
Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
◉Absolute
Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
So absolute she seems,And in herself complete.
◉Absolute
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.
◉Absolute
Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
◉Absolute
Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
To Cusa we can indeed articulately trace, word and thing, the recent philosophy of the absolute.
◉Absolute
Authoritative; peremptory.
The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head,With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.
◉Absolute
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
◉Absolute
In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
◉Absolute
something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control;
no mortal being can influence the absolute
◉Absolute
perfect or complete or pure;
absolute loyalty
absolute silence
absolute truth
absolute alcohol
◉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 stupidity
◉Absolute
expressing finality with no implication of possible change;
an absolute (or unequivocal) quarantee to respect the nation's authority
inability to make a conclusive (or unequivocal) refusal
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