All 11 Uses
ultimate
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Childhood's End
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- Ultimately, all their orders were carried out by human agents.†
Chpt 3ultimately = finally; or in the end
- What his ultimate plans may be, I don't know, but I believe that they are good.†
Chpt 3ultimate = most extreme as in final, best, worst, most important, or most fundamental
- I defy you to mention one act that, in the ultimate analysis, hasn't been beneficial.†
Chpt 3
- Yet Man had not discovered anti-gravity: only the Overlords possessed that ultimate secret.†
Chpt 6
- No-one knew-any more than they knew, a lifetime after their arrival-what their ultimate purpose might be.†
Chpt 6 *
- One tentacle was already a truncated stump, and there could be no doubt as to the ultimate outcome of the battle.†
Chpt 13
- Like not a few other intelligent and well-meaning men, he could appreciate all that Karellen had done for the human race, while still being unhappy about the Supervisor's ultimate plans.†
Chpt 15
- Indeed, Carson claimed, with some truth, to have taken the "mobiles" of a century before to their ultimate conclusion, and thus to have wedded sculpture and ballet.†
Chpt 15
- Nothing in Athens was done without a committee, that ultimate hall-mark of the democratic method.†
Chpt 17
- Science, it was felt, could explain everything: there were no forces which did not come within its scope, no events for which it could not ultimately account.†
Chpt 20ultimately = finally; or in the end
- He realized at last how vain, in the ultimate analysis, had been the dream that had lured him to the stars.†
Chpt 23ultimate = most extreme as in final, best, worst, most important, or most fundamental
Definitions:
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(1)
(ultimate) most extreme as in final, best, worst, most important, or most fundamentalThe 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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)