Meaning & Definition of Ultimate in English

1. The finest or most superior quality of its kind

• "The ultimate in luxury"

1. 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"

2. 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"