All 6 Uses of
ultimate
in
The Fountainhead
- Why hasn't anyone ever said that this is the ultimate horror?†
Chpt 3.1ultimate = most extreme as in final, best, worst, most important, or most fundamental
- She had seen people of wealth, stiff and awed before that which represented their ultimate goal.†
Chpt 3.4
- So after centuries of being pounded with the doctrine that altruism is the ultimate ideal, men have accepted it in the only way it could be accepted.†
Chpt 4.11 *
- Built upon ten thousand years in which men had been taught that charity and self-sacrifice are an absolute not to be questioned, the touchstone of virtue, the ultimate ideal.†
Chpt 4.13
- Self-sacrifice, we drool, is the ultimate virtue.†
Chpt 4.13
- In the person of Howard Roark, we must crush the forces of selfishness and antisocial individualism—the curse of our modern world—here shown to us in ultimate consequences.†
Chpt 4.15
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