Synonyms:
ultimate
Meaning: furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life"
Synonyms:
ultimate
Meaning: being the last or concluding element of a series; "the ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
ultimate
Meaning: the finest or most superior quality of its kind; "the ultimate in luxury"
Usage examples
Now it is manifest that specific likeness follows the ultimate difference.
From youth to age, the foolish choice of goods yields its harvest of ultimate misery.
Other impressions, less ultimate, proved puzzling, disconcerting, and paradoxically reassuring.
Nevertheless, we seem to find a certain dualism, perhaps not ultimate, within the world as we observe it.
And then it sought to get through the ultimate walls with its head--and not with its head only--into "the other world."
It was the body which despaired of the body--it groped with the fingers of the infatuated spirit at the ultimate walls.
Science, on the other hand, does not hesitate to tear down old conceptions, and has only one motive, the ultimate truth.
You would see, I think, that thing happen which is always the ultimate embodiment and logical outcome of your logical scheme."
Sometimes the intelligible species is in the intellect as regards the ultimate completion of the act, and then it understands in act.
We have in us nobler capacities for what is great and good because of the infinite woe and suffering, and because of the splendid ultimate triumph.