ULTIMATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does ultimate mean?
• ULTIMATE (noun)
The noun ULTIMATE has 1 sense:
1. the finest or most superior quality of its kind
Familiarity information: ULTIMATE used as a noun is very rare.
• ULTIMATE (adjective)
The adjective ULTIMATE has 2 senses:
1. furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme
2. being the last or concluding element of a series
Familiarity information: ULTIMATE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ULTIMATE (noun)
Meaning:
The finest or most superior quality of its kind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the ultimate in luxury
Hypernyms ("ultimate" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
• ULTIMATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme
Context examples:
the ultimate achievement / the ultimate question / man's ultimate destiny / the ultimate insult / one's ultimate goal in life
Similar:
crowning (representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment)
eventual (expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating)
final; last; net (conclusive in a process or progression)
last-ditch (of something done as a final recourse (especially to prevent a crisis or disaster))
supreme (final or last in your life or progress)
Attribute:
ultimacy; ultimateness (the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance,)
Antonym:
proximate (closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects)
Meaning:
Being the last or concluding element of a series
Context examples:
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
Similar:
last (coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining)
