2. Despotic, arbitrary, tyrannical, tyrannous, imperious, imperative, authoritative, autocratic, dictatorial, irresponsible.
3. Positive, actual, real, veritable, determinate, decided, genuine, categorical, unequivocal, certain.
Absolutely, ad. 1. Completely, unconditionally, without limit.
2. Truly, actually, positively, indeed, really, in fact, in reality, in truth.
Absoluteness, n. 1. Despotism, absolutism.
2. Positiveness, reality, actuality.
Absolution, n. Acquittal, remission, discharge, release, liberation, deliverance, clearance, forgiveness, pardon, indulgence, justification.
Absolutism, n. Absoluteness, arbitrariness, despotism, tyranny, autocracy.
Absolutory, a. Clearing, acquitting, releasing, pardoning, forgiving, absolvatory.
Absolvatory, a. Absolutory.
Absolve, v. a. Acquit, clear, release, liberate, free, discharge, loose, deliver, exculpate, exonerate, excuse, forgive, pardon, justify, set free.
Absorb, v. a. 1. Imbibe, take in, take up, suck in, suck up, drink in.
2. Consume, exhaust, destroy, engorge, devour, engulf, swallow up.
3. Engross, engage, immerse, occupy, arrest, fix, rivet.
Absorbent, a. Absorbing, imbibing.
Absorption, n. 1. Absorbing.
2. Engrossment, occupation, engagement, immersion.
Abstain, v. n. Refrain, forbear, desist, deny one's self, hold or keep one's self back, stay one's hand, keep one's self from indulgence.
Abstemious, a. Abstinent (by habit), sober, moderate, habitually temperate, sparing in diet.
Abstemiousness, n. Temperance (as a habit), abstinence.
Abstergent, a. (Med.) Cleansing, purifying, purgative, cathartic.
Abstinence, n. 1. Abstaining, refraining.
2. Abstemiousness, soberness, temperance, moderation.
Abstinent, a. 1. Abstaining, fasting.
2. Abstemious, sober, temperate.
Abstract, v. a. 1. Separate, disunite, disjoin, dissociate, isolate, detach, disengage.
2. Take, seize, appropriate, steal, purloin.
3. Abridge, abbreviate, epitomize, make an abstract of.
Abstract, a. 1. Separate, isolated, not concrete.
2. Occult, recondite, subtile, refined, abstracted, abstruse.
Abstract, n. Abridgment, epitome, summary, conspectus, compend, compendium, synopsis, syllabus, outline, digest, brief, breviary, sum and substance, concise statement.
Abstracted, a. 1. Subtile, refined, abstract, abstruse.
2. Inattentive, preoccupied, lost, dreaming, musing, absent, absent-minded, in a revery, in a brown study.
Abstraction, n. 1. Separation, disconnection, disjunction, isolation.
2. Preoccupation, inattention, revery, musing, muse, absence, absence of mind, brown study.
3. Taking, abduction, seizure, appropriation, stealing, purloining, pilfering.
Abstruse, a. Recondite, occult, profound, hidden, transcendental, obscure, difficult, dark, enigmatical, mysterious, mystic, mystical, high, abstract, abstracted, subtile, refined.
Absurd, a. Unreasonable, irrational, foolish, nonsensical, ridiculous, incongruous, senseless, unwise, silly, stupid, preposterous, paradoxical, ill-judged, ill-advised, contrary to reason, contrary to the dictates of common sense.
Absurdity, n. 1. Unreasonableness, irrationality, foolishness, folly, foolery, extravagance, absurdness.
2. Paradox, mare's nest, cart before the horse, absurd thing.
Absurdness, n. Absurdity.
Absurd story, Cock-and-bull-story, fiddle-faddle, neither rhyme nor reason.
Abundance, n. Flow, overflow, exuberance, luxuriance, fertility, copiousness, profusion, richness, largeness, ampleness, wealth, affluence, store, more than enough, great plenty.
