ultimate

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 24.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Final; last in a series.
2. adjective Last in a word or other utterance.
3. adjective Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.

   the ultimate pleasure

4. adjective Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
5. adjective That will happen at some time; eventual.
6. adjective Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
7. adjective Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

   an ultimate constituent of matter

8. noun The most basic or fundamental of a set of things

Similar words

last farthest eventual crowning supreme simple final net elemental highest

Often followed by

goal reality aim success source end in and strength purpose

Word family

Ultimate ultimated ultimately ultimateness ultimatenesses ultimates ultimating