Main entry: absolute
Definition: perfect or complete or pure
Usage: absolute loyalty; absolute silence; absolute truth; absolute alcohol
Antonyms: relative, comparative
Definition: estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete
Antonyms: finite
Definition: bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent
Antonyms: finite
Definition: of verbs; relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person
Antonyms: dead
Definition: people who are no longer living
Antonyms: indirect
Definition: not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination
Antonyms: alternating
Definition: (of a current) reversing direction
Antonyms: indirect
Definition: extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
Antonyms: inverse
Definition: opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
Antonyms: retrograde
Definition: moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
Definition: precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication
Main entry: absolute, out-and-out, sheer, rank, right-down, downright
Definition: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
Usage: 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
Antonyms: uncomplete, incomplete
Definition: not complete or total; not completed
Main entry: absolute, inviolable, infrangible
Definition: not capable of being violated or infringed
Usage: infrangible human rights
Antonyms: alienable
Definition: transferable to another owner
Main entry: absolute
Definition: expressing finality with no implication of possible change
Usage: an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority
Antonyms: ambiguous
Definition: having more than one possible meaning
Antonyms: equivocal, ambiguous
Definition: open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead
Main entry: absolute
Definition: not limited by law
Usage: an absolute monarch
Antonyms: nonarbitrary, unarbitrary
Definition: not subject to individual determination