# absolute

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈæb.sə.luːt/ · frequency rank #2,770

## Definitions
1. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
2. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
3. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
4. Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
5. Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
6. Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
7. Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
8. Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
9. Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
10. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
11. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
12. Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
13. 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".
14. 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".
15. 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".
16. 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".
17. 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".
18. 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".
19. As measured using an absolute value.
20. Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
21. Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
22. Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
23. Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.
24. Absolved; free.

## Etymology
First attested around 1380. From Middle English absolut, from Middle French absolut, from Latin absolūtus (“unconditional; unfettered; completed”), perfect passive participle of absolvō (“loosen, set free, complete”), from ab (“away”) + solvo (“to loose”). Influenced in part by Old French absolu. Compare absolve.

## Easily confused with
- **absolve** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/absolute-vs-absolve)
- **absolutely** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/absolute-vs-absolutely)

## Common misspellings (11)
`abbsolute`, `aboslute`, `absloute`, `absollute`, `absoltue`, `absoluet`, `absolutte`, `absoulte`, `abssolute`, `asbolute`, `basolute`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/absolute