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ABSOLUTELY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Totally and definitely; without question

Example:

iron is absolutely necessary

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

absolute (perfect or complete or pure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

Example:

dead right

Synonyms:

absolutely; dead; perfectly; utterly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

absolute (complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers)

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 Context examples: 

Unless absolutely necessary, do not walk on frostbitten feet or toes. Walking increases the damage.

(Frostbite, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Two cysteines in the catalytic domain (one absolutely required for activity) are generally conserved; other conserved residues in the vicinity are important.

(Non-Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Conductor failure manifests by high lead impedance either absolutely (above manufacturer's product specifications) or by a significant increase from previously stable chronic values.

(Cardiac Device Conductor Failure, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Absolutely not — for example, the brain is about half lipid, and cholesterol is the richest lipid in the brain.

(Researchers Zero-In on Cholesterol's Role in Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Your outlook for amazing change and lucky breaks at work is absolutely extraordinary.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Imagine a place where the weather forecast is always the same: scorching temperatures, relentlessly sunny, and with absolutely zero chance of rain.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Private detectives are a class with whom I have absolutely no sympathy, but none the less, having heard your name—

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If he isn’t absolutely stale, Tregellis, he is your best chance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I then absolutely concluded, that all these appearances could be nothing else but necromancy and magic.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)