Entry Word: ultimate

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 of the greatest or highest degree or quantity <the ultimate speed yet attained by a land-based vehicle>

Synonyms consummate, maximum, most, nth, paramount, supreme, top, utmost, uttermost

Related Words unequaled (or unequalled), unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled (or unrivalled), unsurpassed; topmost, upmost, uppermost

Near Antonyms littlest, smallest; lowest

Antonyms least, minimal, minimum

2 following all others of the same kind in order or time <the ultimate speaker at todayʼs meeting> — see last
3 most distant from a center <the ultimate edges of the universe> — see extreme 1