Adjective

(en-adj)

(obsolete) Absolved; free.

(obsolete) Disengaged from accidental circumstances.

(archaic) Complete in itself; perfect.

* (rfdate) :

So absolute she seems, And in herself complete.

(grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; as

# (of a case form) syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner; ablative absolute; nominative absolute; genitive absolute; accusative absolute.

# standing by itself in a loose syntactical connection, and qualifying the sentence as a whole rather than any single word in it.

Anyhow in 'anyhow, I made it home' is an absolute .

# (of an adjective or possessive pronoun) lacking a modified substantive.

Hungry in 'Feed the hungry.'

# (comparative, superlative) expressing a relative term without a definite comparison.'

Older in 'An older person should be treated with respect.

# having no direct object.

Kill in 'If looks could kill...'

# (Irish, Welsh) an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of articles or compounded with a preverb.

(obsolete) Absorbed in, as an occupation.

Unrestricted; in sole control; possessing absolute power; independent, as in ownership or authority.

Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.

(figurative) Complete; utter; outright; unmitigated; entire; total; not qualified or diminished in any way; unrestricted; without limitation.

When caught, he told an absolute lie.

Unconditional; free from any conditions, limitations, and relations;

# having unlimited power, without limits set by a constitution, parliament, or other means.

# proceeding from or characteristic of an absolute ruler.

* 1962 , Hannah Arendt, On Revolution , (1990), page 155:

the more absolute' the ruler, the more ' absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.

# Absolutist; arbitrary; despotic.

Real; actual.

(archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty, as a person or prediction.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), Cymbeline , Act 4, Scene 2:

I am absolute ’t was very Cloten.

Positive; unquestionable; peremptory.

Free from conditional limitations; operating or existing in full under all circumstances without variation.

(philosophy) Existing, able to be thought of, or able to be viewed without relation to other things.

absolute motion

absolute time or space

Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from ''relative'' rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.

* (rfdate) :

To Cusa we can indeed articulately trace, word and thing, the recent philosophy of the absolute .

Authoritative; peremptory.

* (rfdate) :

The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.

(philosophy) Fundamental; ultimate; intrinsic; free from the variability and error natural to the human way of thinking and perception.

(physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement not comparative or relative as,

# having reference to or derived from the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.

# relating to the absolute temperature scale.

(legal) Complete; unconditional; final; without encumbrances; not liable to change or cancellation.

(education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.

(art) Concerned entirely with expressing beauty and feelings, lacking meaningful reference.

(dance) Utilizing the body to express ideas, independent of music and costumes.

(math) Indicating an expression that is true for all real number; unconditional.

Adjective

(en-adj)

(label) Unable to bear children; sterile.

I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren ?

Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.

* (1800–1859)

barren mountain tracts

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Bleak.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2

, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}

Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.

* (1796-1859)

brilliant but barren reveries

* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Bulgaria 0-3 England , passage=Rooney had been suffered a barren spell for England with only one goal in 15 games but he was in no mood to ignore the gifts on offer in front of an increasingly subdued Bulgarian support.}}

Mentally dull; stupid.

* (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet), III.ii. ca. 1602

Set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too.