ultimately
Academic Word List, sublist 7.
About 26.30 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb Indicating the last item.
Firstly,… Secondly,… Ultimately,…
- adverb Indicating the most important action.
Ultimately, he will have to make a decision before the end of the week.
- adverb In the end; finally.
- adverb Used to indicate the etymon at which a given etymological derivation terminates.
Cognate to Gottscheerish boßər, bàsser. Ultimately cognate to standard High German Wasser.
Similar words
finally at last at long last in the end in the final analysis in the last analysis last lastly conclusively then
Often followed by
to the be a it in lead led responsible on
Word family
ultimate
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