ultimate

Meanings

Adjective

• Final; last in a series.
• Last in a word or other utterance.
• Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
• Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
• That will happen at some time; eventual.
• Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
• Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

Noun

• The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
• The final or most distant point; the conclusion
• The greatest extremity; the maximum

Verb

• To finish; to complete.

Related

Similar words

• utmost, uttermost

Opposite words

• initial, original
• original, derivative

Origin

• From Medieval Latin ultimātus, past participle of Latin ultimo, from ultimus. See ultra-.