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Ultimate   /ˈəltəmət/   Listen
adjective
Ultimate  adj.  
1.
Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. "My harbor, and my ultimate repose." "Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness."
2.
Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final. "Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict."
3.
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate particle; an ultimate constituent of matter.
Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under Organic.
Ultimate belief. See under Belief.
Ultimate ratio (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass.
Synonyms: Final; conclusive. See Final.


verb
Ultimate  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. ultimated; pres. part. ultimating)  
1.
To come or bring to an end or issue; to eventuate; to end. (R.)
2.
To come or bring into use or practice. (R.)





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"Ultimate" Quotes from Famous Books



... shoulders, and after a pause confessed. "You see, try as I will, I can't make a pessimist out of myself. We are all compensated, and I more fully than most men. What end? I asked, and the answer forthcame: Since the ultimate end is beyond us, then the immediate. ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London
... I had made no scheme of ultimate route. The meeting at the Mahon hotel with that cheery chevalier d'industrie Haigh, and the knowledge that that more robust brigand, his blustering, heavy-fisted partner Cospatric, was close at hand, had given me little ...
— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
... his classic profile that had angered him into the confession? Nonsense! The conductor was a married man with a family. Despite her easy, unaffected manner, Margaret Fridolin was no fool; she ever observed the ultimate proprieties, and being dangerously unromantic would be the last woman in the world to throw herself away. But this foolish mania about Isolde. What of that? It was absurd to consider such a thing.... Her mother would never tolerate ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... prerogative was claimed and exercised, more or less freely, by most European sovereigns in ancient times. Nothing could be more natural, than that the prince should assume such authority, or that the people, blind to the ultimate consequences, and impatient of long or frequent sessions of the legislature, should acquiesce in the temperate use of it. As far as these ordinances were of an executive character, or designed as supplementary to parliamentary enactments, or in obedience to ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott
... would save her, not only from any possible unpleasant consequences of her escapade, but also from suffering ultimate loss by reason ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett


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