completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; " an absolutely magnificent painting"; " a perfectly idiotic idea"; " you're perfectly right"; " utterly miserable"; " you can be dead sure of my innocence"; " was dead tired"; " dead right"

totally and definitely; without question; " we are absolutely opposed to the idea"; " he forced himself to lie absolutely still"; " iron is absolutely necessary"

In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.

In an absolute manner.

In this way he came to understand how absolutely necessary you were to him. – Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope

Mrs. Zarubkin, I will make any other dress you choose, but it is absolutely impossible for me to make this one. – Best Russian Short Stories by Various

Only she's honestly and absolutely all of that! – Saturday's Child by Kathleen Norris

He might have stood it even if all the girls did go; but he had counted on Biscuit Westfall as the one person absolutely certain to be in his seat at school. – Sube Cane by Edward Bellamy Partridge

I heard nothing whatever; absolutely nothing. – Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison

But they will do absolutely the right thing. – Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward

He's a man absolutely without fear. – Okewood of the Secret Service by Valentine Williams

As you absolutely refuse to come to my house, I will speak to you here. – Monsieur Cherami by Charles Paul de Kock

Not absolutely obliged, mother. – Charlie to the Rescue by R.M. Ballantyne

If Milly did not absolutely know, she had at least a pretty good idea of what was coming! – The Eagle Cliff by R.M. Ballantyne

" He is absolutely a gentleman, and people seem to like him. – The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford

Will you write to Mr. Palliser,- or I should say, to the Duke,- to- night, and tell him that my mind is absolutely made up? – Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope

I feel absolutely sure of this. – The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 6, 1907-1910 by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Last Updated: February 18, 2009

Earth had absolutely nothing that the Galactics wanted. – A World by the Tale by Gordon Randall Garrett

Unless it be absolutely settled now, they will say when I am dead and gone that my daughter has no right to her name. – Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

She would suffer nobody else to mount her, but from the first moment she and I understood each other absolutely. – The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Andrew Lang

7. What is said of Dr. Adam's " To taken absolutely?" – The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

You are to understand that I knew nothing- absolutely nothing- up to that time. – Witness For The Defence by A.E.W. Mason

Absolutely nothing, at the moment. – When Love Calls by Stanley J. Weyman

For a moment Gerald was absolutely silent. – Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick