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absolute

An absolute is something that will always exist. Death is considered to be an absolute.

absolute

If something is absolute, it is complete or total. The light went out and he was in absolute darkness.

absolute

perfect or complete or pure absolute loyalty absolute silence absolute truth absolute alcohol (= downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer) 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 not limited by law an absolute monarch 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 (= infrangible) not capable of being violated or infringed infrangible human rights expressing finality with no implication of possible change an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority

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Simple sentences

That's the absolute truth.
I have absolute trust in you.
That's absolute nonsense!
That's absolute nonsense.
It has no absolute and universal significance.
The dictator had the absolute loyalty of all his aides.
A computer is an absolute necessity now.
It's an absolute waste of time to wait any longer.
The rumor proved to be an absolute lie.
My orders are absolute.
He has absolute power.
He is an absolute monarch.
Tom is a man of absolute sincerity.
The detective found absolute proof of the man's guilt.
I have absolute trust in him.
He's an absolute fool.
That is the absolute truth!

Movie subtitles

Your little girl's an absolute doll, by the way.
Absolute bullshit!
Would you have a few marks for me? I am in absolute poverty.
This experimental work aims at creating a truly international absolute language of cinema based on its complete separation from the language of theatre and literature.
It's absolute ruination to their beastly old house.
The creature spared our lives, and in return. I honored her with my absolute silence.
Well, M. Duvalle, you can have absolute confidence in me.
I've absolute proof here.
I want absolute quiet.
My counteroffer is the absolute maximum.
Now, the number that opens our Fantasia program, the Toccata and Fugue, is music of this third kind, what we call absolute music.
In the future, each man will serve the State with absolute obedience.
Your Highness would become an absolute sovereign.
He should become absolute ruler, and then he'll protect us Jews.
You know, this is bullshit. Absolute bullshit!
I am in absolute poverty.
This is an absolute joke.
Look at the way you made yourself an absolute slave to him.
Tonight, let us throw all transgression to the winds and enjoy ourselves with absolute infernity.
But from the Neanderthal man to the Cardiff Giant it has been an absolute theory.
Elsa, I am at an absolute loss to understand your attitude.
He's an absolute stranger to us, isn't he?
But achieving the very opposite of your aim is the absolute proof that you're a total idiot.
Mr Walker, I always believe in absolute honesty.
According to Holt. he's absolute master of this whole escarpment.
The man's a fiend, an absolute Borgia.
AND KNOW, WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY, WHAT REALLY MATTERED TO HER?
My control is not absolute!
In the future, each man will serve the state with absolute obedience. Let him who refuses beware!
Absolute quiet.
He was only a clerk in a hardware store, but he was an absolute rat.
He was disappointed in the world so he built his own, an absolute monarchy.
But absolute radio silence must be maintained at all times.
First, your husband takes out this policy in absolute secrecy.
It is indeed, my lord, a most absolute and excellent horse.
Of course, all that's an absolute lot of nonsense, but.

News and current affairs

Indeed, in closing their skies, European governments seem to have given safety absolute priority over everything else.
These are absolute necessities for democratic success, but they require longer-term development of institutional capacity.
Under regional and international pressure, the Saudi ruling family has constructed a Potemkin village of reform while retaining absolute control over all political developments.
A few years earlier, as America rushed to lock up ever more of its population for ever-pettier offenses, the absolute size of its incarcerated population surpassed that of China - despite China's population being more than four times that of America.
Just as China needs to allow the renminbi to rise, so Germany - whose current-account surplus exceeds China's both as a share of GDP and in absolute terms - needs a higher real exchange rate.
Because the Czech Parliament's upper house has an absolute veto over constitutional amendments, the opportunity to amend the Constitution was lost.
Thus, even if the absolute income gap between an average American and an average African increases, why worry?
On the contrary, psychological studies invariably show that people care not only about their absolute income, but also about where they stand in the social pyramid and whether their position is fair.
Second, water scarcity is seldom absolute, and even less often an explanation of poverty.
Israelis and Palestinians cannot find the way out alone, because neither side would dare to forcibly disarm its own extremists without absolute proof that the other side will do the same.
But sovereignty is not an absolute; it involves obligations as well as rights.
Whether it involved absolute loyalty or murderous rivalry, traditional politics was rarely divorced from personal passion.
The complex essence of Barack Obama is an absolute plus.
They speak explicitly about America's interest in preserving its relative, not just absolute, economic power.
The end of the East-West ideological divide and the end of absolute faith in markets are historical turning points.
Rather, the stubborn complexities of the situation are reduced to a stark struggle between absolute power and absolute powerlessness, the archetypal oppressor and archetypal oppressed.
Now that we have seen the costs of giving absolute priority to safety, we know that this is not only a technical question.
An absolute majority of citizens in each of the surveyed countries are convinced that their country is heading in the wrong direction.
While the US has problems, it hardly fits the description of absolute decline in ancient Rome, and the analogy to British decline, however popular, is similarly misleading.
The same applies to the Supreme Leader, who, despite his title, is not an absolute ruler.
Iran's participation in an international peace conference is an absolute necessity, if only to test Rowhani's seriousness.
And, while this reflects changes in relative importance, European banks' business volumes might have increased in absolute terms even in the US, though at a slower pace than elsewhere.

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