Ultimate

[Ul·ti*mate]

The last in a series can be described as the ultimate. A cheeky kid, when asked what she wants to be when she grows up, might say, "I want to be an actress, a singer, and a veterinarian, but my ultimate goal is to be President of the United States."

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

Adjective S.
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"

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"

Adjective S.
being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything; "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple"


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

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

a.
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of matter.

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

v. t. & i.
To come or bring into use or practice.


Ultimate

Ul"ti*mate , a. [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.
Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness.
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.
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.

Ultimate

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.]

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

To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end.

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Usage Examples

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me they're just good.

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

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