absolute

Definition

  • adjective: complete and total
  • adjective: free from imperfection
  • often used informally to make a statement more forceful
  • synonyms: perfect, arbitrary, autocratic

Examples

  • ('US') That restaurant serves the 'absolute' best Mexican food I've ever eaten. [=that restaurant serves absolutely the best Mexican food I've ever eaten]

  • The company has grown 'in absolute terms', but its share of the market is actually less than it was a few years ago.

  • He says that he has 'absolute' [='certain'] proof that his client is innocent.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) and so forth. But all of that stuff, it's, um... It's really at the mercy of your subject's prejudice, you see? What you have to do is start at the absolute basic. Which is what? The relationship with the father. - Do you have a chemist? - No, not yet. Right. Okay, well, (..)
    2010 Inception