Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being or situated at the most distant limit or point; farthest.
- adjective Of the highest or greatest degree, amount, or intensity; most extreme.
- noun The greatest possible amount, degree, or extent; the maximum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being at the furthest point or extremity or bound; furthest; extreme; last.
- Of the greatest or highest degree, number, quantity, or the like: as, the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness.
- noun The extreme limit or extent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme.
- adjective Being in the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or the like; greatest.
- noun The most that can be; the farthest limit; the greatest power, degree, or effort.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Situated at the mostdistant limit ;farthest - adjective The
most extreme ;ultimate ;greatest - noun
maximum ; greatest possibleamount orquantity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the greatest possible degree
- adjective of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
- adjective highest in extent or degree
- adjective (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Jiang says local authorities are treating the situation in what she described as the utmost seriousness.
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The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claims security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
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The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claimed security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
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The images just smuggled out by men and women who risked their lives are at least two days old, the pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claimed security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
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The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claims security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
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The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claims security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
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The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claims security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
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The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claimed security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
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The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claims security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
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The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claims security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
gangerh commented on the word utmost
Is this the opposite of utleast?
January 27, 2008
reesetee commented on the word utmost
Gangerh, I'm stealing that one! ;-)
January 28, 2008