Ultimate

Quick meaning: Ultimate is an adjective meaning (not comparable) Final; last in a series.

Meaning

(not comparable) Final; last in a series.

More Meanings

1. (not comparable, of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
2. Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
3. Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
4. (not comparable) That will happen at some time; eventual.
5. (not comparable) Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
6. (not comparable) Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
7. The most basic or fundamental of a set of things

Example Sentences

the ultimate pleasure

the ultimate disappointment

[…] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

Word Forms

• ultimates
• ultimating
• ultimated

Synonyms for ultimate

Depending on context, synonyms include conclusive, last, terminal, extreme, final, decisive.

Antonyms for ultimate

Common opposites include initial, original, derivative, proximate, embalm.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include last, farthest, eventual, crowning, supreme, simple.

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