Utmost

/ˈʌtməʊ̯st/ · adjective

Meaning

superlative form of utter: most utter; situated at the most distant limit; farthest, outermost..

Definitions by Sense

1. superlative form of utter: most utter; situated at the most distant limit; farthest, outermost.
2. The most extreme; greatest, ultimate.
3. The greatest possible capability, extent, or quantity; maximum.

Example Sentences

the utmost limits of the land

the utmost extent of human knowledge

Betwixt two thieves I [Jesus] ſpend my utmoſt breath, / As he that for ſome robberie ſuffereth.

[W]e coaſted within 2 leagues of Antibes, which is the utmoſt towne in France.

[T]he maſters, wardens, ſearchers, aſſiſtants and commonalty of the company of cutlers in Hallamſhire in the county of York, their ſucceſſors and aſſigns, are nominated and appointed undertakers of the ſaid navigation, with power to make the ſaid river navigable, at their own expence, from Holmſtile aforeſaid, up the ſaid river above Holmſtile to the utmoſt extent of Tinſley westward, [...]

As yet we are far from having explored the utmost depths of space. Our telescopes have only reached a limited distance into the regions of the heavens.

Our nature is need for truth and fulfilment, or, in other words, happiness. [...] But this desire, having reached the extreme borders of our life experience, still does not find what it has been searching for: at the utmost frontier of its lived territory, this urgent need of ours still has not found its answer.

the utmost assiduity

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• uttermost
• utmosts

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