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ultimately

[uhl-tuh-mit]

adjective

last; furthest or farthest; ending a process or series: the ultimate point in a journey; the ultimate style in hats.

maximum; decisive; conclusive: the ultimate authority; the ultimate weapon.

highest; not subsidiary: ultimate goal in life.

basic; fundamental; representing a limit beyond which further progress, as in investigation or analysis, is impossible: the ultimate particle; ultimate principles.

final; total: the ultimate consequences; the ultimate cost of a project.

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not to be improved upon or surpassed; greatest; unsurpassed: the ultimate vacation spot; the ultimate stupidity.

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noun

the final point; final result.

a fundamental fact or principle.

the best, greatest, or most extreme of its kind.

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Origin:
1645–55; < Late Latin ultimātus (past participle of ultimāre to come to an end), equivalent to Latin ultim(us) last, most distant (see ultima) + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

ul·ti·mate·ly, adverb

ul·ti·mate·ness, noun

sub·ul·ti·mate, adjective

Can be confused: 1. paramount, tantamount, ultimately; 2. penultimate, last, ultimate; 3. ultimate, ultimatum.

Synonyms
1. extreme, remotest, uttermost. 2. supreme. 5. See last¹.

Antonyms
5. first.

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Example Sentences

The jury foreperson told the judge the panel could not ultimately reach a verdict on the three remaining counts.

Ultimately what the author is saying is that dreamers have run out of material with the subject of physics.

Still, the industrial revolution ultimately improved the living standards of workers of all skill levels.

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The jury foreperson told the judge the panel could not ultimately reach a verdict on the three remaining counts.

Ultimately what the author is saying is that dreamers have run out of material with the subject of physics.

Still, the industrial revolution ultimately improved the living standards of workers of all skill levels.

Dinosaurs may ultimately have been killed off not by a huge asteroid but by tiny germs.

They betray hidden reservoirs of gas, and may ultimately become a key tracer of star-forming gas clouds in distant galaxies.

Predicting the effects of climate change may ultimately help us all.

It's also important to find out how wide and high a perennial will ultimately grow.

Some academics believe life will ultimately return to a manageable rhythm.

Trichet said that income inequality is ultimately a threat to society.

Sometimes sacrificing a piece is painful but ultimately may win the game, for instance.

But the bigger picture is that traffic demand will only rise, and new capacity must ultimately be added, one way or another.

Budgetary and political pressure piled on, however, and ultimately led to a different beast.

We are ultimately left with a dependent dying universe, that is unable to explain itself.

Ultimately the suspicion forms that though these are bodily manifestations, the cause is psychological.

The people experience is mind-boggling and ultimately leaves you feeling speechless.

The bids themselves are only a part of what ultimately determines the auction winners.

The effect is initially startling, but ultimately disrespectful and perverse.

Whether these students ultimately become farmers or not, this decision will shape their lives for the better.

Furthermore, he warns that this might ultimately shape the development of the legal, regulatory and public-policy environment.

Six college students recount their first time and how it ultimately shapes their future.

Agrippina, ultimately did him in with a dose of poisoned mushrooms.

His attention to such tiny details ultimately settled the identification of the sea monster.

Good sound may ultimately be subjective, but that doesn't mean there aren't a few general rules everyone should know.

Of course, success by organisms can ultimately be disastrous for their species.

And even less advice has been offered as to how they can support themselves if that tenure-track search ultimately fails.

It also cautioned that this could ultimately spill over into public markets.

If the violets vanish, so could the bees, and ultimately acres of crops.

To be clear, there is nothing wrong in science with putting forth bold hypotheses that ultimately turn out to be wrong.

Kruse's research ultimately led him to some provocative conclusions.

The defendants ultimately pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and hacking.

Koi ultimately relies on pose more than performance.

Their education alienates them from one another, from the world in which they live, and ultimately from themselves.

Of course, falling prices could ultimately lead to a new influx of residents attracted by cheap housing.

Beyond that, ultimately his way of doing things is intimately tied to using the observational equipment he was born with.

These escape mechanisms are ultimately what cause the ground to be brown.

Morse's career never reached those heights, and he ultimately gave up art for technology.

We are being sold products and social scenarios that appeal to our fantasies but ultimately fail us.

How much pain taxpayers will ultimately bear is an open question.

The section on oil shows who has the oil and where it is, where it is piped to and where it is ultimately sent.

Such engineering may ultimately point the way to improved gene therapy treatments for human diseases.

Focus on the positive and see how it elicits a much better response and ultimately relationship.

The research may ultimately lead to a complete master plan of the entire fly brain.

If they debase their currency, it will ultimately become valueless.

Street litter washes into storm drains, into our waterways and ultimately ends up in the ocean.

If so, life may ultimately owe its origins to our serendipitously large moon.

New genetic research will ultimately provide diets tailored to your genetic make-up.

Ultimately they will have to earn investors' confidence by performing consistently through this market downturn.

The digital archive will become a tool for monitoring and ultimately protecting the animals, the scientists say.

These are ultimately questions about one's moral values and personal preferences.

Mantell experimented with painkillers to try to soothe the injury, but this would ultimately prove to be his undoing.

Everything from cars to cookers could ultimately have social connectivity embedded in it.

More dust, less rain and even more dust can become a vicious cycle that ultimately creates increasingly more desert lands.

One feature ultimately distinguishes online publishing from traditional media: the link.

Brushing such problems under the carpet will ultimately be counter-productive.

But these agreements ultimately depend on financing.

Relativity and fractals present us with a world and universe that are ultimately mathematical in nature.

As a by-product, some outstanding lunar science was done, leading ultimately to an understanding of the moon's origin.

It will ultimately reach more than ten million people as it moves around the country over a two-year period.

Economic difficulties may ultimately have led to the decision to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.

They were perhaps mystified about why they did not get an invitation to the next step in the process, or ultimately an offer.

Critics are now concerned that further failures may cause the public to distrust the system and ultimately ignore warnings.

New research suggests that the cells ultimately help with learning complex tasks-and the more they are challenged.

He could have died, but he ultimately survived with.

I've recently gone through the tenure process, ultimately with a positive outcome.

After all, without customers businesses founder and ultimately fail.

Then have them brainstorm how they think these changes may ultimately affect.

The work generated waves of support and criticism and ultimately gave birth to the image of.

Ultimately you have to give those ideas commercial value and to deliver them to consumers in your own country.

The iPod ultimately turned out to be a smash hit, of course.

Kung fu, fostering a better understanding of violence, ultimately teaches how to avoid conflict.

He ultimately conceded-not in bitterness but in fair play.

They ultimately wind up at part of the brain called the olfactory bulb.

Ultimately the take social services and lower our wages.

In many cases, the information in those letters helps families decide where a student will ultimately enroll.

Complexity science promised much, but ultimately delivered relatively little.

The lions persevered, and the cow was ultimately killed and eaten.

Fish in each trial ultimately gobbled up the same numbers of prey.

Every round you can draw a card or swap a card, but ultimately can you have only one card at a time.

These exhibition games create big moments, but ultimately real fans connect with their local clubs.

Erickson ultimately agreed to the guidelines, after offering some of his own revisions.

Ultimately it shows poor engagement by shareholders too.

Stroud was ultimately convicted of murder and is serving life without parole.

For all their strength and ferocity, they ultimately perished.

Lives saved in the short term could ultimately be lost to a harsh side effect of these.

Bush ultimately decided against the proposal to use military force.

The press, ultimately discovered by those it mocked, was destroyed.

Ultimately it may contribute to conservation efforts for many species".

Bottom line, this will ultimately be an indictment of the operators and the company utility, not the technology itself.

But it's on a rocket that his reputation may ultimately ride.

Real terms of trade ultimately aren't affected by exchange rate policies.

Treacherous conditions ultimately forced him to abandon his expedition and await rescue.

McGraw believes that the tests will ultimately prove that marijuana does in fact make broad sight gags more funny.

If totally deprived of shut-eye, humans ultimately perish.

It is on the retina that the light is converted into a neural signal that is ultimately interpreted by the brain as an image.

Hunch uses your answers to narrow the field and ultimately suggests a decision.

Ultimately the open-source approach may prove to be symbiotic with capitalism.

But in the end, human ability to turn down the heat may ultimately determine either death or renewal.

Dude, get out of your lab more often, replacing workers for machines ultimately kills people.

These small groups gradually grew larger and more complicated, ultimately yielding complex organizations.

Klein believes that genetic evidence might ultimately provide answers.

The biochemical cascade caused by the common cold virus ultimately produces a protein, called carabin, that.

The case could ultimately revamp the relationship between mobile-phone carriers and their customers.

Explain that not all human impacts on wild animals are ultimately bad.

Spekkens thinks this theorem may ultimately have a similar impact.

The director's masterpiece plays to near-empty theaters, ultimately retreating to the art-house circuit as a cult oddity.

The energy savings ultimately offset the cost of the bulb.

The example of the admin who blocks everything is overly restrictive and draconic and will ultimately hurt productivity.

Where all the dust that ultimately coalesced into stars, planets, and organic material came from has long been an open question.

It may ultimately come down to the benefits outweighing the costs.

The bitterness amongst the people may ultimately lead to a crisis on psychological level.

Given all of the options, the number and variety of file formats can be ultimately confusing for the uninitiated.

Genetics and environment play a role in how an animal ultimately looks and acts.

Exoskeletons, full-body prosthetics, will ultimately connect directly to the brain as well.

Meth addicts, he told me, ultimately suffer from diminished sense of touch.

Rare recognizes that conservation ultimately comes down to people.

Bhatt's ultimately seeks to put the charmers out of business.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

ultimately (ˈʌltɪmɪtlɪ)

—*adv*
	in the end; at last; finally

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Word Origin & History

ultimate

1654, from L.L. ultimatus, pp. of ultimare "to be final, come to an end," from ultimus "last, final," superlative of *ulter "beyond" (see ultra). Ultimate Frisbee is attested from 1972.

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