Thesaurus: ultimate

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1. a. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.
2. a. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
3. a. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of matter.
4. v. t. & i. To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end.
5. v. t. & i. To come or bring into use or practice.
6. adj. furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme
7. adj. being the last or concluding element of a series
8. n. the finest or most superior quality of its kind
9. 1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. My harbor, and my ultimate repose. Milton. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness. Addison. 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. Coleridge. 3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, 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. Syn. -- Final; conclusive. See Final. 1. To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end. [R.] 2. To come or bring into use or practice. [R.]
10. j:100 n. the finest or most superior quality of its kind a. furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme s. being the last or concluding element of a series