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Definition
most extreme as in final, best, worst, most important, or most fundamental
The exact meaning of ultimate depends upon its context. For example:
- "the ultimate decision-maker" — the final
- "the ultimate car" — the best
- "the ultimate insult" — the worst
- "the ultimate source" — original or most fundamental
- "the ultimate sacrifice" — most extreme
- The secret accumulation of knowledge — a gradual spread of enlightenment — ultimately a proletarian rebellion — the overthrow of the Party.p. 261.8
- That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.p. 35.5
- The immediate advantages of falsifying the past were obvious, but the ultimate motive was mysterious.p. 79.9
- But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make?p. 167.3
- Suddenly, as one sometimes does with a book of which one knows that one will ultimately read and re-read every word, he opened it at a different place and found himself at Chapter III.p. 185.2
- Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labors another Floating Fortress is built.p. 191.3
- Ultimately the determining factor is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself.p. 207.3
- Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible.p. 212.4
- Ultimately it is by means of doublethink that the Party has been able — and may, for all we know, continue to be able for thousands of years — to arrest the course of history.p. 214.9
- He had still, he reflected, not learned the ultimate secret.p. 217.6
- He had understood it all, weighed it all, and it made no difference: all was justified by the ultimate purpose.p. 262.9
There are no more uses of "ultimate" in 1984 by Orwell.
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