Ultimate

Adjective

 * 1) Concerning the last or final thing in a series.
 * 2) Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
 * 3) * E.g. The ultimate pleasure, or the ultimate disappointment
 * Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
 * 1) Being the most distant or extreme; farthest
 * 2) That will happen sometime; eventual
 * 1) That will happen sometime; eventual

Derived terms

 * antepenultimate
 * penultimate
 * ultimateness

Related terms

 * ulterior
 * ultimatum
 * ultra
 * ultra-

Noun

 * 1) The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
 * 2) The final or most distant point; the conclusion
 * 3) The greatest extremity; the maximum

Verbs for Ultimate
acclaim—; achieve—; afford—; anticipate —; apply—; attain—; dedicate to—; delay —; demand—; determine—; employ—; gain—; necessitate—; proclaim—; seek—; survive—; temporize—; undergo—; waive —; —endures.

Adverbs for Ultimate
irrevocably; eventually; significantly; tragically; fatally; decisively; unchangeably; hopelessly.

Thesaurus
absolute, acmatic, acme, acme of perfection, apical, apotheosis, approaching, basic, binding, boundary, capital, categorical, caudal, chief, climax, closing, collateral, coming, complete, completing, completive, completory, compulsory, conclude, concluding, conclusive, consummate, consummation, consummative, contingent, crowning, culminating, culmination, deciding, decisive, decretory, definitive, desired, destinal, destined, determinative, determine, determined, dictated, elemental, emergent, empyreal, empyrean, end, endmost, entailed, epitome, essential, eventual, exalted, extrapolated, extreme, farthermost, farthest, farthest off, fatal, fated, fatidic, final, finalizing, finish, finishing, forthcoming, fulfilling, fundamental, furthermost, furthest, future, futuristic, grand, greatest, hard-and-fast, head, headmost, height, hereafter, highest, highest pitch, hindmost, hoped-for, imminent, imperative, imposed, incomparable, indirect, irrevocable, lag, last, last word, later, latest, latter, limiting, lofty, mandated, mandatory, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, most distant, must, ne plus ultra, nearing, obligatory, overmost, paramount, peak, peremptory, perfection, pink, pink of perfection, pinnacle, planned, plotted, polar, predicted, preeminent, prescript, prescriptive, primary, probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, quintessence, remotest, required, secondary, sublime, summit, summital, supreme, surpassing, tail, terminal, terminate, terminating, terminative, tip-top, to come, to-be, top, topmost, towering, transcendent, transcendental, underlying, unmatchable, unsurpassable, upmost, uppermost, utmost, uttermost, vertical, wind up, without appeal, wrap up, zenithal

Etymology
< ultimatus:, past participle of  ultimare: < ultimus:; see ultra-.

Adjective

 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: последен, краен,  завршен,  конечен


 * Polish:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Estonian: ülim
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: најголем, врвен


 * Polish: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: slutliga


 * German: äußerster
 * Macedonian: најдалечен


 * Serbo-Croatian: najdalji
 * Spanish: más remoto


 * Italian:, , , , , ,


 * Macedonian: конечен, краен


 * Dutch: ultiem, laatst, uiteindelijk
 * Finnish: lopullinen (1), paras (2)
 * French: ultime
 * German: ultimativ


 * Latin: ultimus, ultima , ultimum

Anagrams

 * mutilate

Verb
ultimate



Anagrams

 * multiate, mutilate