absolute

adjective

1 there was absolute silence in the house | an absolute disgrace:

complete, total, utter, out-and-out, outright, entire, perfect, pure, decided;

thorough, thoroughgoing, undivided, unqualified, unadulterated, unalloyed, unmodified, unreserved, downright, undiluted, solid, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, arrant, rank, dyed-in-the-wool;

plenary;

Law peremptory.

▷antonyms partial, qualified.

2 everything I have told you is the absolute truth:

definite, certain, positive, unconditional, categorical, unquestionable, undoubted, unequivocal, decisive, conclusive, confirmed, manifest, infallible.

▷antonyms partial, qualified.

3 the parliament was only consultative, with absolute power remaining with the king:

unlimited, unrestricted, unrestrained, unbounded, unbound, boundless, infinite, ultimate, total, supreme, unconditional, full, utter, sovereign, omnipotent.

▷antonyms conditional.

4 an absolute monarch:

autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannical, tyrannous, authoritarian, arbitrary, imperious, domineering, high-handed, draconian, autonomous, sovereign, autarchic, autarchical, antidemocratic.

▷antonyms constitutional.

5 absolute moral standards:

universal, fixed, independent, nonrelative, nonvariable, absolutist;

rigid, established, set, settled, definite, decided, irrevocable, unalterable, unquestionable, authoritative, incontrovertible, in black and white.

▷antonyms relative, flexible.