ultimate
IPA: ˈʌɫtʌmʌt
noun
- The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
- The final or most distant point; the conclusion
- The greatest extremity; the maximum
- (uncountable, sports) Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee/ultimate disc.
verb
- (transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.
adjective
- 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.
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Examples of "ultimate" in Sentences
- The term ultimate was used advisedly, and still stands.
- But he joked that John Ashbery had asked him what the word ultimate meant.
- The word ultimate comes from the Latin term latimatus and means “last,” “final,” or “farthest.”
- Manji discusses relativism versus pluralism to express what she calls the ultimate form of liberty.
- Everything we do as individuals is determined by who we think we are — or, in the case of school reform, by what we define as our ultimate goals.
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