Ultimate

['ʌltɪmət] or ['ʌltəmət]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the finest or most superior quality of its kind; 'the ultimate in luxury'.

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) 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' .

布莱尔整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.

(a.) Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.

(a.) Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of matter.

(v. t. & i.) To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end.

(v. t. & i.) To come or bring into use or practice.

編輯:维尔玛

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Last, final, furthest, extreme, eventual.

伯纳黛特校對

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Last, final, extreme, conclusive, remotest, farthest

ANT:Prior, intermediate, proximate, preliminary

英格拉姆編輯

解釋/意思:

adj. furthest: last: incapable of further division.—adv. Ul′timately.—n. Ultimā′tum the final proposition or terms for a treaty:—pl. Ultimā′ta.—adj. Ul′timo in the last (month).—n. Ul′timo-gen′iture the same as Borough-English (q.v.)—opp. to Primogeniture.—Ultimus h鎟es (law) the crown or the state which succeeds to the property of those who die intestate without leaving next of kin or who being bastards have no next of kin.

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