Ultimate — Defs

01 a. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.

1.
Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.
“My harbor, and my ultimate repose.” — Milton.

“Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness.” — Addison.
2.
Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
“Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict.” — Coleridge.
3.
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate particle; an ultimate constituent of matter.

Phrases & compounds

Ultimate analysis — organic analysis. See under Organic.

Ultimate belief — See under Belief.

Ultimate ratio — the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass.

Syn. Final; conclusive. See Final.

02 v. t. & i. To come or bring to an end or issue; to eventuate; to end.

imp. & p. p. Ultimated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ultimating