ultimate
Adjective
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Furthest or highest in degree or order;
Utmost or extreme (synset 301582720)"the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life"tells us about: ultimacy, ultimateness - the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distancesimilar to:- crowning - representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment
- eventual - expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating
- final, last, net - conclusive in a process or progression
- last-ditch - of something done as a final recourse (especially to prevent a crisis or disaster)
- supreme - final or last in your life or progress
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Being the last or concluding element of a series (synset 301017558)
"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"similar to: last - coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
Noun
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The finest or most superior quality of its kind (synset 104736257)
"the ultimate in luxury"is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
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