UTMOST
Dictionary entry overview: What does utmost mean?
• UTMOST (noun)
The noun UTMOST has 1 sense:
1. the greatest possible degree
Familiarity information: UTMOST used as a noun is very rare.
• UTMOST (adjective)
The adjective UTMOST has 3 senses:
1. of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
2. highest in extent or degree
3. (comparatives of 'far') most remote in space or time or order
Familiarity information: UTMOST used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• UTMOST (noun)
Meaning:
The greatest possible degree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
level best; utmost; uttermost; maximum
Context example:
he tried his utmost
Hypernyms ("utmost" is a kind of...):
bound; boundary; limit (the greatest possible degree of something)
• UTMOST (adjective)
Meaning:
Of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
Synonyms:
extreme; utmost; uttermost
Context examples:
extreme cold / extreme caution / extreme pleasure / utmost contempt / to the utmost degree / in the uttermost distress
Similar:
intense (in an extreme degree)
Meaning:
Highest in extent or degree
Synonyms:
utmost; last
Context examples:
to the last measure of human endurance / whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually
Similar:
high (greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount)
Meaning:
(comparatives of 'far') most remote in space or time or order
Synonyms:
furthest; furthermost; farthest; farthermost; uttermost; utmost
Context examples:
had traveled to the farthest frontier / don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree / explored the furthest reaches of space / the utmost tip of the peninsula
Similar:
far (at a great distance in time or space or degree)
Domain usage:
comparative (the comparative form of an adjective)
