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absolute

adjective
  1. Supremely excellent in quality or nature: consummate, faultless, flawless, impeccable, indefectible, perfect, unflawed. See good
  2. Free from extraneous elements: perfect, plain, pure, sheer 2, simple, unadulterated, undiluted, unmixed. See clean
  3. Without limitations or mitigating conditions: unconditional, unconditioned, unqualified, unreserved. See limited
  4. Having no reservations: implicit, unconditional, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unquestioning, unreserved, wholehearted. See big, limited
  5. Completely such, without qualification or exception: all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer 2, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter 2. Informal: flat-out, positive. Chiefly British: blooming. See big, limited
  6. Having and exercising complete political power and control: absolutistic, arbitrary, autarchic, autarchical, autocratic, autocratical, despotic, dictatorial, monocratic, totalitarian, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous. See over, politics

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