ULTIMATE

ultimate

(adjective) being the last or concluding element of a series; “the ultimate sonata of that opus”; “a distinction between the verb and noun senses of ‘conflict’ is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable”

ultimate

(adjective) furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; “the ultimate achievement”; “the ultimate question”; “man’s ultimate destiny”; “the ultimate insult”; “one’s ultimate goal in life”

ultimate

(noun) the finest or most superior quality of its kind; “the ultimate in luxury”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

ultimate (not comparable)

Final; last in a series.

(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.

Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.

Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.

That will happen at some time; eventual.

Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.

Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

Synonyms

• (final): See Thesaurus:final

• (most extreme): utmost, uttermost

Antonyms

• (w.r.t. causes): initial, original

• (most extreme): original, derivative

Coordinate terms

• (adjectives denoting syllables): ultimate (last), penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)

Noun

ultimate (plural ultimates)

The most basic or fundamental of a set of things

The final or most distant point; the conclusion

The greatest extremity; the maximum

(uncountable) A non-contact competitive team sport played with a 175 gram flying disc, the object of which is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone; ultimate frisbee.

Verb

ultimate (third-person singular simple present ultimates, present participle ultimating, simple past and past participle ultimated)

(transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.

Anagrams

• mutilate

Source: Wiktionary

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Ul"ti*mate, a. Etym: [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L. ultimare to come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same source as ulterior. See Ulterior, and cf. Ultimatum.]

1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. My harbor, and my ultimate repose. Milton. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness. Addison.

2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final. Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict. Coleridge.

3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of matter. Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under Organic.

– Ultimate belief. See under Belief.

– Ultimate ratio (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass.

Syn.

– Final; conclusive. See Final.

Ul"ti*mate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Ultimated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ultimating.]

1. To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end. [R.]

2. To come or bring into use or practice. [R.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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