ultimate

  • (a) 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
  • (s) 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

Nouns

  • (n) the finest or most superior quality of its kind
    • the ultimate in luxury

Antonyms

proximate

Words of close approximity

ultimacy
ultimate frisbee ultimately ultimateness