ultimate

adj 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" [ant: {proximate}]

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"

3: being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything;

"the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of

life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate

ingredients of matter" [syn: {elemental}]