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US
/ˈəɫtəmət/
]
[ UK /ˈʌltɪmət/ ]
[ UK /ˈʌltɪmət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme
one's ultimate goal in life
the ultimate question
the ultimate insult
the ultimate achievement
man's ultimate destiny -
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
NOUN
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the finest or most superior quality of its kind
the ultimate in luxury
How To Use ultimate In A Sentence
- If you interview a lot of conservative Democrats, even in states like Texas, you know, New Mexico, they are very concerned that Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket would really kind of depress voter turnout and ultimately affect a lot of down ballot races. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- The story of Hyderabad's ultimate incorporation into India is a complex one.
- Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace
- The desserts were homey and filling - the baked banana with chocolate sauce is the ultimate for those people who love that combination.
- We (the Western public) regard picnics as highly advantageous to health and beauty, promoting social sympathy and high-toned alimentiveness, advancing the interests of the community and the ultimate welfare of the nation. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870
- A series of offensives in early 1918 achieved initial success but ultimately failed to break the Allied line, and by summer, with the Americans coming in droves, the tide of the war had turned irreversibly against the Central Powers. How Wars end
- It was fabulous, gorgeous in its excess, the ultimate realization of some untrammeled private fantasy.
- Your Honour, we have not appealed against that, but what we do say is that we have sufficient standing to obtain either of the prerogative writs if ultimately the Court were minded to grant them and we do not really need more than that.
- In 11 volumes published between 1888 and 1894, and many years later widely published in a condensed edition, the narrator's adventures in the London demimonde are narrated in such detail as ultimately to become tiresome rather than titillating. Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels
