utmost
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
utmost (not comparable)
- Situated at the most distant limit; farthest.
- We coasted within two leagues of Antibes, which is the utmost town in France.
- Betwixt two thieves I spend my utmost breath.
- the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowledge
- The most extreme; ultimate; greatest.
- c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:
- Where he shall answer by a lawful form, In peace to his utmost peril.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 236d.
- Indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.
- the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness
- French: extrême
- German: äußerst
- Italian: estremo
- Portuguese: extremo, derradeiro
- Russian: кра́йний
- Spanish: extremo
- French: plus grand, suprême, extrême
- German: äußerst, höchst
- Portuguese: extremo, derradeiro
- Russian: преде́льный
- Spanish: descollante, sobresaliente, extremado, sumo, suma
utmost
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