Definitions for: Ultimate


[adj] 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"
[adj] 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"
[adj] 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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. --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 (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.


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.]

Synonyms: crowning(a), elemental, eventual(a), farthest, final, highest, last, last-ditch, net, simple, supreme

Antonyms: proximate

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