absoluuttinen — meaning in English

English meaning

• absolute adj Complete and total, with no exceptions or limits.
• dry adj Free from moisture; not wet.
• positive adj Optimistic, constructive, or good in effect.

Senses

absoluuttinen is used for these senses in English:

• absolute Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory. [first attested in the mid 1500s]
• absolute Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. [first attested in the late 1400s]
• absolute Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree. [first attested around 1400]
• absolute Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed. [first attested in the mid 1500s]
• absolute (especially, philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards. [first attested in the late 1700s]
• absolute (grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left". [first attested around 1350 to 1470]
• dry (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
• positive Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.

absolute — full definition

1. adj Complete and total, with no exceptions or limits.
2. adj Measured independently, without reference to anything else for comparison.
3. noun Something that exists as a fixed, unconditional truth or standard.

dry — full definition

1. adj Free from moisture; not wet.
2. adj Lacking or forbidding alcohol.
3. adj Not sweet, especially describing wine.
4. adj Amusing in a deadpan, understated way; also, plainly boring.
5. verb To remove moisture from something, or to lose moisture.

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