Word Meanings - ULTIMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same 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

Additional info about word: ULTIMATE

come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same 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 , organic analysis. See under Organic. -- Ultimate belief. See under Belief. -- Ultimate ratio , the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass. Syn. -- Final; conclusive. See Final.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ULTIMATE)

• Elementary
• Physical
• material
• natural
• elementary
• primary
• rudimental
• simple
• inchoate
• compo
• constituent
• ultimate
• Extreme
• Terminal
• final
• remote
• utmost
• farthest
• extravagant
• immoderate
• most violent
• distant
• last
• latest
• conclusive
• definite
• developed
• decisive
• Invisible
• Minute
• atomic
• Last
• Latest
• ending
• concluding
• hindmost
• past
• extreme
• lowe? t
• remotest

Related words: (words related to ULTIMATE)

• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• ENDENIZATION
  The act of naturalizing.
• CONCLUSIVELY
  In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.
• CONCLUDENCY
  Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.
• ULTIMATE
  1. To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end. 2. To come or bring into use or practice.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• ENDOGENY
  Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
• ENDENIZE
  To endenizen.
• ENDOTHECIUM
  The inner lining of an another cell.
• CONCLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• ENDOSCOPE
  An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
• ENDOPLASM
  The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• INCHOATE
  Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh.
• ENDOCHROME
  The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.
• DISTANT
  stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated;
• ENDALL; END-ALL
  Complete termination. That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shak.
• ENDOSTYLE
  A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• ANTEPENULTIMATE
  Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• GENDER
  A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living
• DIATOMIC
  Containing two atoms. Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• ACCENDIBILITY
  Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.
• STIPEND
  Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• DECRESCENDO
  With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.
• SEA LAVENDER
  See MARSH
• SHENDFUL
  Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• FACIEND
  The multiplicand. See Facient,