Absolute

Definition: Absolute

Absolute

Adjective

1. Perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol".

2. 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".

3. Not limited by law; "an absolute monarch".

4. 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".

5. Without conditions or limitations; "a total ban".

6. Not capable of being violated or infringed; "infrangible human rights".

Noun

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "absolute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Etymology: Absolute \Ab"so*lute\, adjective. [Latin absolutus, past participle of absolvere: compare to French absolu. See Absolve.]. (references)

Satire

Chemical Industry

Aerospace

Literature

Mining

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Absolute

Affirmation

Pronunciative, affirmative, soi-disant; positive; certain; express, explicit; (patent); absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted; predicable.

Certainty

Unqualified, absolute, positive, determinate, definite, clear, unequivocal, categorical, unmistakable, decisive, decided, ascertained.

Completeness

Adjective: complete, entire; whole; perfect; full, good, absolute, thorough, plenary; solid, undivided; with all its parts; all-sided.

Dueness

Privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained, prescribed, chartered, enfranchised. prescriptive, presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable; imprescriptible, inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct. due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved.

Existence

Real, actual, positive, absolute; true; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential.

Freedom

Unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional; absolute; discretionary; (optional).

Government

Ruling; Verb: regnant, gubernatorial; imperious; authoritative, executive, administrative, clothed with authority, official, departmental, ex officio, imperative, peremptory, overruling, absolute; hegemonic, hegemonical; authorized; (due).

Severity

Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian.

Crosswords: Absolute

Esperanto (absolutely), German (absolute, absoluteness).

In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked (The Day the Earth Stood Still; writing credit: Harry Bates; Edmund H. North)

You absolute horror of a human being (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus)

In order for there to be absolute trust between thieves there can be nothing (Entrapment; writing credit: Ronald Bass; Michael Hertzberg)

This list is an absolute good (Schindler's List; writing credit: Steven Zaillian)

Absolute power is absolute freedom (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

Absolute Aggers and Torters (1969)

An Absolute Treasure (1967)

Absolute Quiet (1936)

You're Talking Absolute Football (1999)

Tatort - Absolute Diskretion (1999)

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References

• Absolute Investment A.G.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Absolute Beginner's Guide to C (2nd Edition) (reference)

• Absolute Beginners: Alto Saxophone (reference)

• Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD (reference)

• Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department (reference)

• Absolute Rage (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• The Absolute Sound (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Absolute Best (reference)

• Absolute Power (reference)

• Absolute Beginners (reference)

• Inspector Morse - Absolute Conviction (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Absolute Heaven (reference)

• Absolute Joy (reference)

• Absolute Torch and Twang (reference)

• Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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"Tetrahedron" by Владимир Смирнов (Vladimir Smirnov). These platonic solids illustrate a clever use of the absolute value function.

Proton vector magnetometer used to measure the absolute value of magnetic field. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Observing absolute value of horizontal component of the Earth's magnetic field. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Measuring absolute value of declination with a declinometer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Magnetic observatory at Little America IV Tent used for absolute observations while center building used for variation. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

William Davidge as Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, holding hat and walking stick. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It is one thing to owe honour, respect, gratitude and assistance; another to require an absolute obedience and submission. (Second Treatise of Government)

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. (reference)

In Germany they fight with the bourgeoisie whenever it acts in a revolutionary way, against the absolute monarchy, the feudal squirearchy, and the petty bourgeoisie. (reference)

As compensation for the destruction of the coal-mines in the north of France and as part payment towards the total reparation due from Germany for the damage resulting from the war, Germany cedes to France in full and absolute possession, with exclusive rights of exploitation, unencumbered and free from all debts and charges of any kind, the coal-mines situated in the Saar Basin as defined in Article 48. (reference)

However, in a great number of countries, far from the Russian frontiers and throughout the world, Communist fifth columns are established and work in complete unity and absolute obedience to the directions they receive from the Communist center. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms--and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. (reference)

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Absolute neglect of the mother and sisters, when invited to come, would be ingratitude

I feel sure, now, that the most absolute Atheist may be leading, though walking blindfold, a pure and noble life

They are subject to the prioress with an absolute and passive submission

At the willow he knew there would be shade, at least one hard bar of absolute shade thrown by the trunk, since the sun had passed its zenith

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living

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Health

It can range from a dull, annoying ache to absolute agony. (references)

Before surgery is performed, there are three absolute requirements. (references)

Nothing about endometriosis is simple, and there are no absolute cures. (references)

Business

Actris AG, is it financially competitive? There is no absolute answer to this question. (references)

For the first time since the party's founding, the PRI lost its absolute majority in the lower house of Congress. (references)

Companies manufacturing for the defense sector were given absolute priority in the acquisition of raw materials, technology and preferential credits. (references)

Civil Liberties

Singapore

The Government has absolute discretion in applying this broad, vague language to register or dissolve societies. (references)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

The opposition People's Action Movement (PAM) party has alleged that the Labour Party has maintained absolute control of the national television and radio broadcasting facilities, blocking PAM's access and ability to debate government policies or air opposing concerns. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

No single party holds an absolute majority in either house of Congress. (references)

Human Rights

Madagascar

Gender segregation was not absolute, and there were reports of rapes committed by other prisoners. (references)

Japan

The Constitution provides defendants with the right not to be compelled to testify against themselves as well as to free and private access to counsel; however, the Government contended that the right to consult with attorneys is not absolute and can be restricted if such restriction is compatible with the spirit of the Constitution. (references)

Political Economy

China

The total number of citizens living in absolute poverty continues to decline. (references)

Political Rights

Spain

The Popular Party received an absolute majority in the 2000 parliamentary elections. (references)

Andorra

The ALP, (the head of Government's Party), retained its absolute majority, winning 15 of the 28 seats in Parliament. (references)

Haiti

Under the Constitution and electoral law, a candidate for the Senate or Chamber of Deputies must receive an absolute majority of votes cast in order to be elected in the first round of voting. (references)

Trade

Georgia

In 1997, the EBRD extended loans to two local banks, Absolute Bank and United Georgian Bank, and signed an equity purchase agreement with the latter. (references)

Travel

Chile

However, not all speak English, and foreign business people will often find the ability to speak Spanish very useful, if not an absolute must. (references)

Worker Rights

Dominican Republic

Collective bargaining is legal and may take place in firms in which a union has gained the support of an absolute majority of the workers. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Beginning with "absolute": absolute-zero.

Ending with "absolute": non-absolute.

Containing "absolute": integral-with-time-of-absolute-error.

Afrikaans

absoluut. (various references)

Albanian

absolut (all-rounder, complete, direct, irrelative, perfect, plenary, sheer, total, utter). (various references)

Arabic 

مطْلَق (free, unlimited), ‏كامل (all out, complete, completed, concluded, consummate, entire, essential, finalized, finished, full, full blown, full scale, integral, integrate, out and out, outright, perfect, plenary, plumb, rounded off, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unqualified, utter, whole), ‏مستبد (despot, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, highhanded, imperious, masterful, tyrannical), ‏مطلق (categorical, complete, downright, free, full, infinite, liberator, outright, perfect, plenary, stark, ultimate, unbounded, unconditional, uncontrolled, unlimited, unqualified, unrestrained, unrestricted, utter), ‏مطبق (pure), ‏مجرد (abstract, bare, just, mere, merely, naked), ‏غير مقيد بدستور, ‏غير نسبي, ‏حاسم (categorical, conclusive, critical, crucial, decided, decisive, definite, definitive, determinate, fateful, final, high, peremptory, pivotal, unqualified), ‏صميم (bottom, core, genuine), ‏صرف (chuck, count, creak, dismiss, dismissal, double, downright, earn, exchange, groan, pay, pay away, pure, put out, receive, resolve, scrape, shake, shrift, sterling, turn away, unadulterated, unalloyed, vent, withdraw), ‏إستبدادي (arbitrary, autocratic, dictatorial, imperial, totalitarian, tyrannical, tyrannous), ‏أساسي (alkaline, basal, base, capital, cardinal, close, constitutional, formal, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, innate, inward, leading, main, major, material, momentous, nub, organic, overriding, paramount, piece de resistance, primal, primary, principal, radical, right, staple, substantial, ultimate, underling). (various references)

Bulgarian 

самовластен, чист (chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, crisp, crystal, downright, fair, fine, fresh, heavenly, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, lucid, mere, native, natty, neat, net, orderly, oriental, pellucid, pristine, pure, rank, sanitary, self, sheer, simon-pure, soilless, solid, stainless, sterling, straight, sublime, sweet, taintless, trim, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, unmixed, unpolluted, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstained, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed), несъмнен (certain, decided, indubitable, questionless, sure, undeniable, undisputed, unimpeachable, unmistakable, unquestionable, unquestioned), неограничен (autocratic, autocratical, clear, limitless, plenary, plenipotentiary, sovereign, stintless, termless, unbounded, unconditioned, unconstrained, unlimited, unreserved, unrestricted, unstinted, untrammelled, wide), неподправен (authentic, unadulterated, unalloyed, uncoined, unsophisticated, unvarnished), абсолютен (implicit, irrelative, perfect, plenary, plenipotentiary, profound, rank, sheer, sovereign, unconditioned, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, veriest), безусловен (peremptory, perfect, termless, unconditional, unconditioned, unreserved), без примеси (unmixed), пълен (alive, all out, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog), положителен (affirmative, indisputable, peremptory, positive). (various references)

Chinese 

絕對 (absolutely), 绝对 (Absolutely, Categorical). (various references)

Czech

absolutní (blank, clear, complete, dead, flat, implicit, perfect, plenary, positive, strict, uncompromising, undiluted, undivided, unmitigated), vyložený (arrant, downright, real, right-down, undiluted, utter), totální (all out, blank, hopeless, total, utter, wholesale), přesvìdèivý (clear-cut, cogent, conclusive, convincing, forceful, persuasive, potent, sound, unanswerable), naprostý (bloody, complete, dead, downright, entire, full, outright, perfect, positive, rank, sheer, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, unconditional, unmitigated, utter), úplný (clear, complete, entire, full, outright, perfect, plenary, thorough-paced, utter, very, whole), èistý (blank, clean, clear, fine, neat, net, new, perfect, pure, stainless, straight, taintless, tidy, true, unalloyed, untainted, white). (various references)

Danish

absolut essens, absolut, quintessens, fuldstændig (complete, integral). (various references)

Dutch

absoluut (absolutely), onvermengd (pure, unadulterated). (various references)

Esperanto

absoluta, senlima, nepra, nelimigita, kompleta (complete). (various references)

Faeroese

markleysur (extreme), fullfíggjaður (complete, full, integral). (various references)

Farsi 

مستقل (Autocratic, Free, Independent, Maverick, Realty), مطلق (Abstract, Arbitrary, Autocratic, Downright, Free, Implicit, Positive, Sheer, Slick, Stark, Total, Unconditional, Unrestrained, Utter), مجرد (Abstract, Bachelor, Discrete, Immaterial, Lone, Single, Solitary), کامل (Complete, Culminant, Exact, Intact, Integral, Large, Main, Mature, Perfect, Plenary, Stark, Thorough, Unabridged, Unmitigated, Unqualified, Whole), قطعی (Categorical, Conclusive, Cretain, Decisive, Definite, Irrevocable, Last, Peremptory, Positive, Sure, Trenchant, Ultimatum, Uncompromising, Unconditional), غیرمقید (Plenary), غیرمشروط (Uncoditioned), خودرای (Headstrong, Hidebound, Nonconformist, Obstinate, Opinionated, Peremptory, Wayward), خالص (Downright, Genuine, Heartfelt, Limpid, Net, Pure, Sheer, Unadulterated, Unalloyed), استبدادی (Autocratic, Reactionary), ازادازقیودفکری , دایره نامحدود. (various references)

Finnish

täydellinen (complete, entire, full, integral, perfect). (various references)

French

absolu (abs.), ineluctable, complet. (various references)

Frisian

alles omfiemjend (complete, integral, overall, total), abslút, totaal (complete, integral, overall, total), hiel (complete, entire, integral, overall, total, whole), grinsleas. (various references)

German

absolut (absolutely, complete, definitely, downright, outright, perfectly, starkly, strict, strictly, total, undivided, utterly, without fail), unbedingt (absolutely, imperative, implicit, implicitly, necessarily, really, scrupulous, unconditional, unconditioned, unreserved), unbeschränkt (boundless, full, illimitable, limitless, unbounded, unlimited, unrestrained, unrestrainedly, unrestricted, untrammeled, untrammelled, without restraint). (various references)

Greek 

απόλυτος (outright, utter). (various references)

Hawaiian

absolut. (various references)

Hebrew 

מוחלט (categorical, certain, decided, definite, downright, outright, positive, sheer, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unqualified, utter), שלם (complete, entire, intact, integral, paymaster, perfect, round, scot free, self contained, strict, total, whole), החלטי (assertive, decisive, forthright, peremptory, purposeful, stout, tenacious), גמור (complete, completion, concluded, conclusion, end, ended, entire, finish, finished, finishing, out and out, outright, perfect, sheer, stark, termination, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, total, utter, very), טהור (abstersion, catharsis, cleaning up, cleansing, decontamination, pure, purgation, purge, purification, sheer, straight, unadulterated, unalloyed). (various references)

Hungarian

abszolút (absolutely, sheer, total, unmitigated, utter), teljes (absorbing, all-out, at full speed, bag of tricks, clear, complement, complete, consummate, crass, entire, exhaustive, fore-and-aft, full statement, full-blood, global, gross, integrate, integrated, out and out, perfect, plenary, Plumb, pukka, regular, restitution of all things, right-down, round, setout, to come in for one's full share of sg, to pelt, to the full, to the top of one's bent, to transmogrify, total, undivided, utter, very, whole), feltétlen (categorical, express, peremptory, positive, unconditional). (various references)

Icelandic

alger. (various references)

Indonesian

absolut, sesungguhnya (ever, factual, truly, virtual), sebetulnya, penuh (full, rapt), mutlak. (various references)

Italian

completo (all, all out, all round, arrant, blank, clear, complete, dead, entire, full, full up, implicit, inclusive, integral, intimate, out and out, outfit, outright, overall, perfect, round, set, sound, stark, suit, thorough, total, totally, unabridged, utter, whole), assoluto (all-time, clear, damned, downright, implicit, perfect, profound, sheer, stark, sweeping, unqualified, utter, very). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

絶対的　 (absolutely an), 絶対的 , 絶対 (absoluteness, unconditional), 純然たる (complete, pure, sheer, utter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜったいてき, ぜったい (absoluteness, alliance, annexation, coalesce, combine, fur, unconditional, unite), じゅんぜんたる (complete, pure, sheer, utter). (various references)

Korean 

절대 (implicit). (various references)

Malay

lengkap (complete, integral). (various references)

Manx

ynrican (alone, only, particular, single, sole), jerrinagh (belated, closing, concluding, conclusive, end, eventual, final, finalist, foregoing, hindmost, last, late, late of fruit, latter, rearmost, ultimate, utmost), jarroo (actual, explicit, express, identical, indubitable). (various references)

Papiamen

apsoluto, kompleto (complete, integral), ilimitá. (various references)

Pig Latin

absoluteay.(various references)

Polish

absolutny, bezwzględny. (various references)

Portuguese

absoluto (implicit, outright, sheer, total, unconditional, unmitigated, utter), completo (all out, all-around, all-out, all-round, arrant, bijou, clean, complete, completed, done, downright, dyed-in-the, egregious, entire, exhaustive, freehearted, full, fullbodied, outright, plenary, plumb, precious, round, run-down, sheer, sweeping, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, thru, total, unabridged, unalloyed, unmitigated, utter, whole). (various references)

Romanian

absolut (absolutely, arbitrarily, be sure, blank, boundless, broad, categorical, categorically, coercive, complete, completely, dead, downright, emphatic, entire, essential, finished, flat, inalienable, just, perfect, physically, positive, positively, precious, pure, sheer, simple, strict, sure, there's no doubt about it, thorough, thoroughly, total, unequivocal, unfailingly, unlimited, unmistakable, unmistakably, unqualified, unrestricted, utter), total (all out, blank, complete, completely, count, crass, dead, entire, exclusive, gross, inclusive, outright, perfectly, quite, sum, thorough, total, totally, unmitigated, utter, utterly, whole, wholly), sigur (absolutely, assuredly, certain, certainly, cocksure, confident, convinced, decided, dependable, indeed, it must be, positive, reliable, reliant, safe, safely, secure, self confident, sound, steady, sterling, straight, sure, surely, tenacious, trustworthy, undeniable, undoubtedly, unequivocal), pur (chaste, clean, clear, fine, genuine, immaculate, mere, modest, pure, sheer, simple, stainless, unmixed, virginal, white), primordial (essential, essentially, foremost, initial, primary, primordial, primordially), perfect (a1, accomplished, all right, blameless, classic, consummate, faultless, flawless, good enough, okay, out and out, perfect, perfectly, pure, quite so, right-down, ripe, that's fine, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, tiptop, total, unimpeachable), nelimitat (absolutely, boundless, indefinite, limitless, unbounded, uncontrollable, unlimited), neapãrat (absolutely, certainly, naked, needs, open, perforce), desãvârşit (accomplished, blank, complete, consummate, faultless, finished, full-fledged, out and out, perfect, perfectly, pure, right-down, stark, thorough, thoroughpaced), deplin (blank, complete, dead, entire, full, plenary, quite, stark, total, whole, wholesale, wholly), curat (bald, blank, clean, cleanly, clear, clearly, fair, faultless, fine, fresh, genuine, honest, immaculate, neat, orderly, Plumb, pristine, pure, raw, sheer, simple, sincere, snowy, snug, stainless, stark, straight, tidy, white), complet (all out, broad, clear, collected, complement, complete, completely, comprehensive, dead, down to the ground, downright, entire, entirely, every bit, every inch, exhaustive, fairly, flat, full, fully, good, hollow, outright, perfect, purely, quite, stark, strict, suite, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, to the bone, total, unabridged, utter, utterly, whole), categoric (absolutely, beyond peradventure, categorical, categorically, clear, curt, decided, decisive, definite, definitely, dogmatic, downright, emphatic, explicit, explicitly, flat, flatly, formal, much, on the dead, peremptorily, peremptory, plump, positive, positively, simply, Square, stiff, unanswerable, unbending, unqualified). (various references)

Russian 

абсолютный (dyed-in-the-wool, positive, stark, teetotal, total, unconditioned, unmitigated, utter). (various references)

Scottish

tur (complete, entire; dry, without condiment). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

apsolutna konstrukcija, apsolutistički, apsolutan (flat, utter, uttermost), apsolut, samovoljno biće, samobitno biće, potpun (complete, consummate, crass, downright, outright, plenary, stark, thorough-paced, total, unmixed, utter, uttermost). (various references)

Spanish

absoluto (absolutely, absoluteness, clear, complete, implicit, infinite, loss, perfect, sheer, unquestioned, utter), completo (all around, all round, clear, complete, consummate, downright, entire, finished, full, inclusive, integral, omnibus, outright, overall, perfect, plain, plenary, Plumb, rank, round, sheer, stark, thorough, total, unalloyed, utter, whole), cabal (complete, entire, exact, integral, overall, proper, regular, thorough, together, total, utter, whole). (various references)

Swahili

kamili (complete, exactly, integral). (various references)

Swedish

absolut (absolutely, dead, definitely, essential, every time, flatly, heart and soul, implicit, irrelative, much, positively, quite, rather, strict, teetotal, ultimate, unqualified, unquestioning, utter, utterly, very). (various references)

Turkish

tam (accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole). (various references)

Turkmen 

tьmmek (complete, hill), hyryn-dykyn (complete, full). (various references)

Ukrainian

самовладний (autocratic, autocratical, despotic, despotical), чистий (austere, blank, bright, chaste, childlike, clean, cleanly, clear, crystal, immaculate, native, neat, net, pristine, pure, silvery, spotless, unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated, virginal, white), цілковитий (abysmal, all out, crass, dense, exquisite, orbicular, out and out, outright, pure, right-down, teetotal), необмежений (illimitable, indefinite, open, open ended, plenipotential, plenipotentiary, unbounded, unlimited, unrestrained), максимальний (critical, maximal, maximum), абсолютний (all round, blank, complete, direct, overall, plenipotential, plenipotentiary, positive, sheer, unmitigated), абсолют, безсумнівний (certain, doubtless, indubitable, positive, questionless, sure, undoubted, unquestioned), безумовний (categorical, implicit, unconditional, unconditioned, unquestioning), бездомішковий (solid), повний (all out, big, broad, chock-a-block, complete, crass, definitive, entire, fatty, flush, full, integral, orbicular, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, profound, pudgy, pure, rotund, round, total, utter, whole), дійсний (active, actual, authentic, available, indicative, objective, operative, real, valid). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tuyệt đối (absolutely, categorical, expressly), nguyên chất chuyên chế, hoàn toàn; thuần tuý, chắc chắn vô điều kiện, đúng sự thực, độc đoán xác thực. (various references)

Welsh

absolwt, hollol (all, quite), diamodol (unconditional, unqualified), diamod, cwbl (all, total, whole). (various references)

pura, puram, puras, purior, purissimam, purissimas, purissimi, purissimo, purissimum, puritatem, puro, purum, purus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "absolute": absolutely, absoluteness, absolutenesses, absoluter, absolutes, absolutest. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Absolute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abolute, aboute, absluley, absolete, absolette, absoloute, Absolu, absoluate, Absolue, absolut, absolutive, absolutoe, abstolute, Assoluta, cassolette, obsolute. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: boatels, boletus, oblates, sublate.

-2 letters: ablest, beauts, bleats, bloats, blouse, bluest, bluets, boatel, botels, boules, bustle, buteos, butles, lobate, obelus, oblast, oblate, obtuse, osteal, salute, solate, solute, stable, suable, sublet, sublot, subtle, tables, tousle, usable.

-3 letters: abets, ables, about, abuse, abuts, aloes, altos, autos, bales, baste, bates, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, belts, besot.

+1 letter: absoluter, absolutes, bluecoats, outblazes, outbleats, outfables.

+2 letters: absolutely, absolutest, absolutive, absolutize, subtotaled, tabboulehs.

+3 letters: absolutized, absolutizes, automobiles, beauteously, construable, ethambutols, obnubilates, outbalances, roundtables, subtotalled, supportable, unstoppable.

+4 letters: absoluteness, abstemiously, ambulatories, boastfulness, boatbuilders, confabulates, counterblast, discountable, prosecutable, questionable, questionably, rambouillets, somnambulate, subeditorial, surmountable, tolbutamides, untouchables.

+5 letters: battlegrounds, blabbermouths, claustrophobe, counterblasts, elucubrations, equilibrators, flutterboards, insupportable, nebulizations, neuroblastoma, perambulators, quotabilities, somnambulated, somnambulates, subadolescent, subcollegiate, subordinately, tablespoonful, troublemakers, unsupportable.