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ultimate |
Grep of noun ultimate antepenultimate penultimate ultimate frisbee ultimateness Overview of adj ultimate The adj ultimate has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (20) ultimate -- (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") 2. (5) ultimate -- (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") 3. elemental, ultimate -- (being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple") Antonyms of adj ultimate 3 senses of ultimate Sense 1 ultimate (vs. proximate) proximate (vs. ultimate) => immediate Sense 2 ultimate INDIRECT (VIA first last) -> intermediate INDIRECT (VIA last intermediate) -> first Sense 3 elemental, ultimate INDIRECT (VIA simple) -> complex Similarity of adj ultimate 3 senses of ultimate Sense 1 ultimate (vs. proximate) => crowning(postnominal) => eventual(postnominal) => farthest => final, last net => highest => supreme => last-ditch Sense 2 ultimate => last (vs. intermediate) (vs. first) Sense 3 elemental, ultimate => simple (vs. complex) Attributes of adj ultimate 1 of 3 senses of ultimate Sense 1 ultimate (vs. proximate) => ultimacy, ultimateness Familiarity of adj ultimate ultimate used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Grep of adj ultimate antepenultimate penultimate ultimate Overview of adj ultimate The adj ultimate has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (20) ultimate -- (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") 2. (5) ultimate -- (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") 3. elemental, ultimate -- (being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple")
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