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noun
adj
- relating to the ablative case
- (geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
- (engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
- (grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
- (medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
- tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature
noun
adj
- Producing accusations; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
- (grammar) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.
- containing or expressing accusation
- serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
noun
adj
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
verb
- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
noun
adj
noun
noun
adj
noun
- (grammar) The objective case.
- A material object that physically exists.
- A goal that is striven for.
- (grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
- The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
adj
- (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
- Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices.
- Based on observed facts; without purely subjective assessment.
- Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
- belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events
- emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation
- undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena
- serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
noun
adj
noun
- the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed
- (grammar) case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.
noun
- (grammar): In English and other modern languages, the case used to mark the immediate object (direct object) on which the transitive verb acts. In Latin grammar, the accusative case (cāsus accūsātīvus) includes functions derived from the Indo-European accusative and lative cases; said Lative Case expresses concepts similar to those of the English prepositions "to" and "towards".
- the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
adj
- (of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.
- Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
- Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
- (art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
- (law, postpositive, formal) Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.
- Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
- (of an adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
- Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
- (mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.
- (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
- Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
- (especially philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
- (of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
- Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
- Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
- Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
- (education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
- (of a comparative or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
- (mathematics) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
- (of a usually transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
- (of Celtic languages) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.
- (very occasionally postpositive) Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- not limited by law
- perfect or complete or pure
- not capable of being violated or infringed
- expressing finality with no implication of possible change
noun
- That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
- (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
- (chemistry) A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
- (geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
- (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
- something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative
noun
- (grammar) A construction in Latin and other sister languages in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.
- a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier
noun
adj
- (music) A pause in the vocals of a song, usually occurring midway through, in which a musical instrument replaces the vocals.
- (grammar) Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally corresponding to the English use of prepositions such as by, with, through, or by means of with the objective case.
- (music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).
- Serving as an instrument, medium, means, or agency.
- Essential or central; of great importance or relevance.
- serving or acting as a means or aid
- relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments
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adj
- As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
- Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
- Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
- (linguistics, grammar) Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
- Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
- Lacking in reality or substance.
- of a mental act performed entirely within the mind
- taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
adj
noun
noun
- (grammar, in languages with case distinctions also) The object of a monotransitive verb that it is not in the accusative case, especially when it is in the dative case.
- (grammar) A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.
- the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb
noun
- (grammar, also attributively) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.
- (grammar, also attributively) In Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic and Old Norse: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha/hafa/hava to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses.
- (grammar, also attributively) (obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive.
adj
- Lying on its back.
- (figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
- (rare, now poetic) Inclining or leaning backward; inclined, sloping.
- (of the hand, forearm or foot) Turned facing toward the body or upward: with the thumb outward (palm up), or with the big toe raised relative to the little toe.
- passive as a result of indolence or indifference
- lying face upward
noun
- (grammar) Initialism of internal argument.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of internal affairs, a department responsible for investigating complaints against police officers.
- (politics) Initialism of international affairs.
- (UK) Initialism of initial accommodation (for immigrants)
- Initialism of Institute of Arts.
- Initialism of Impact Assessment.
- (computing) Initialism of information assurance.
- (military) Initialism of individual augmentee.
- Initialism of industrial action.
- (Philippines, education) Initialism of industrial arts, one of the strands under the TVL track in senior high school.
- Initialism of immediate action, the procedure to determine the cause of a rifle stoppage.
- (linguistic morphology) Initialism of item-and-arrangement.
intj
name
- Initialism of Ice Age.
- (military, uncountable) Initialism of Indian Army.
- (India) Initialism of Indian Airlines.
- (military) Initialism of Iraqi Army.
- (Internet) Initialism of Internet Archive: an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996.
- Abbreviation of Iowa: a state of the United States.
- (computing) Initialism of Intel Architecture.
noun
adj
adj
noun
noun
adj
- relating to the ablative case
- (geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
- (engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
- (grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
- (medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
- tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature
noun
adj
- Producing accusations; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
- (grammar) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.
- containing or expressing accusation
- serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
noun
adj
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
verb
- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
noun
adj
noun
noun
adj
noun
- (grammar) The objective case.
- A material object that physically exists.
- A goal that is striven for.
- (grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
- The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
adj
- (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
- Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices.
- Based on observed facts; without purely subjective assessment.
- Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
- belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events
- emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation
- undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena
- serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
noun
adj
noun
- the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed
- (grammar) case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.
noun
- (grammar): In English and other modern languages, the case used to mark the immediate object (direct object) on which the transitive verb acts. In Latin grammar, the accusative case (cāsus accūsātīvus) includes functions derived from the Indo-European accusative and lative cases; said Lative Case expresses concepts similar to those of the English prepositions "to" and "towards".
- the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
noun
- (grammar) A construction in Latin and other sister languages in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.
- a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier
noun
adj
- (music) A pause in the vocals of a song, usually occurring midway through, in which a musical instrument replaces the vocals.
- (grammar) Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally corresponding to the English use of prepositions such as by, with, through, or by means of with the objective case.
- (music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).
- Serving as an instrument, medium, means, or agency.
- Essential or central; of great importance or relevance.
- serving or acting as a means or aid
- relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments
noun
adj
- As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
- Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
- Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
- (linguistics, grammar) Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
- Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
- Lacking in reality or substance.
- of a mental act performed entirely within the mind
- taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
noun
- (grammar, in languages with case distinctions also) The object of a monotransitive verb that it is not in the accusative case, especially when it is in the dative case.
- (grammar) A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.
- the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb
noun
- (grammar, also attributively) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.
- (grammar, also attributively) In Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic and Old Norse: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha/hafa/hava to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses.
- (grammar, also attributively) (obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive.
adj
- Lying on its back.
- (figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
- (rare, now poetic) Inclining or leaning backward; inclined, sloping.
- (of the hand, forearm or foot) Turned facing toward the body or upward: with the thumb outward (palm up), or with the big toe raised relative to the little toe.
- passive as a result of indolence or indifference
- lying face upward
noun
- (grammar) Initialism of internal argument.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of internal affairs, a department responsible for investigating complaints against police officers.
- (politics) Initialism of international affairs.
- (UK) Initialism of initial accommodation (for immigrants)
- Initialism of Institute of Arts.
- Initialism of Impact Assessment.
- (computing) Initialism of information assurance.
- (military) Initialism of individual augmentee.
- Initialism of industrial action.
- (Philippines, education) Initialism of industrial arts, one of the strands under the TVL track in senior high school.
- Initialism of immediate action, the procedure to determine the cause of a rifle stoppage.
- (linguistic morphology) Initialism of item-and-arrangement.
intj
name
- Initialism of Ice Age.
- (military, uncountable) Initialism of Indian Army.
- (India) Initialism of Indian Airlines.
- (military) Initialism of Iraqi Army.
- (Internet) Initialism of Internet Archive: an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996.
- Abbreviation of Iowa: a state of the United States.
- (computing) Initialism of Intel Architecture.
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adj
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noun
adj
- relating to the ablative case
- (geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
- (engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
- (grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
- (medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
- tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature
noun
adj
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
verb
- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
adj
- (of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.
- Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
- Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
- (art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
- (law, postpositive, formal) Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.
- Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
- (of an adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
- Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
- (mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.
- (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
- Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
- (especially philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
- (of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
- Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
- Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
- Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
- (education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
- (of a comparative or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
- (mathematics) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
- (of a usually transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
- (of Celtic languages) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.
- (very occasionally postpositive) Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- not limited by law
- perfect or complete or pure
- not capable of being violated or infringed
- expressing finality with no implication of possible change
noun
- That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
- (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
- (chemistry) A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
- (geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
- (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
- something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative