Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lowest in position, rank, or place; bottom.
- adverb In or to the lowest place.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lowest in place, rank, state, or condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lowest, as in place, rank, or condition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In the
lowest position or state;bottom .
Etymologies
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Examples
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An extraordinary medley of feeling — but it was not a medley, exactly; rather it was successive layers of feeling, in which one could not say which layer was undermost — struggled inside him.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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An extraordinary medley of feeling — but it was not a medley, exactly; rather it was successive layers of feeling, in which one could not say which layer was undermost — struggled inside him.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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They fell heavily, the jailor undermost, upon the floor of the dungeon, and Robert of Paris, the necessity of whose case excused the action, plunged his dagger in the throat of the unfortunate.
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Mrs General changed her gloves, as to the right glove being uppermost and the left undermost, with a Prunes and Prism smile.
Little Dorrit 2007
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But, having had the good fortune to be undermost at the time of the capture, he has vanished into air.
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As I came in sight of the bridge, the cause of delay was too manifest, for the Somerset had made a summerset in good earnest, and overturned so completely, that it was literally resting upon the ground, with the roof undermost, and the four wheels in the air.
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Our American friends have stood with us in the most critical of times and undermost the intense pressure.
His Holiness' Speech at the Congressional Gold Medal Award Ceremony 2007
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Rusty cables and chains, ropes and rings, undermost parts of posts and piles and confused timber-defences against the waves, lie strewn about, in
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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Our American friends have stood with us in the most critical of times and undermost the intense pressure.
His Holiness' Speech at the Congressional Gold Medal Award Ceremony 2007
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Unity, that, it is easily seen, it lies under the undermost garment of nature, and betrays its source in Universal Spirit.
Nature 2006
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