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Definition of Ultimate

1. Adjective. Furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme. "One's ultimate goal in life"

2. Noun. The finest or most superior quality of its kind. "The ultimate in luxury"

3. Adjective. Being the last or concluding element of a series. "A distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"

Definition of Ultimate

1. a. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.

2. v. t. & i. To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end.

Definition of Ultimate

1. Adjective. Concerning the last or final thing in a series. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance. ¹

3. Adjective. Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme. ¹

4. Adjective. Being the most distant or extreme; farthest ¹

5. Adjective. That will happen sometime; eventual ¹

6. Noun. The most basic or fundamental of a set of things ¹

7. Noun. The final or most distant point; the conclusion ¹

8. Noun. The greatest extremity; the maximum ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ultimate

1. to come to an end [v -MATED, -MATING, -MATES]

Medical Definition of Ultimate

1. 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, organic analysis. See Organic. Ultimate belief. See Belief. Ultimate ratio, the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass. Synonym: Final, conclusive. See Final. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ultimate

ult. ulta-pulta ultarelativistic ulterior motive ulterior motives ulteriority ulteriorly ulteriour ultima ultima Thule

ultimacies ultimacy ultimas ultimata ultimate analysis ultimate frisbee ultimate principle ultimate sacrifice ultimate sacrifices ultimate strength

ultimated ultimately ultimateness ultimatenesses ultimates ultimating ultimation ultimatum

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