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/ˈʌtəmˌəʊst/
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ADJECTIVE
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(comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order
don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree
the utmost tip of the peninsula
explored the furthest reaches of space
had traveled to the farthest frontier -
of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
utmost contempt
in the uttermost distress
extreme pleasure
extreme caution
to the utmost degree
extreme cold
NOUN
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the greatest possible degree
he tried his utmost
How To Use uttermost In A Sentence
- Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness begins and concludes on the Thames, that ‘tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth’.
- One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms. Chapter 15
- I think today our nation is at the crossroads where a serious reflection on the direction of our policies is a matter of uttermost urgency.
- We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power.
- With one click of a key on a computer and you have the whole world at your fingertips, enabling you to know the goings-on in the uttermost parts of the globe.
- The next morning my mouth opened in a yawn with uttermost content.
- I found that they hailed from the uttermost parts of the earth. An Odyssey of the North
- Even in the uttermost frenzy of energy is each maenad movement royally, imperially, incedingly upborne. Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
- That gospel saves everywhere and to the uttermost.
- Genius, devotion, and courage; the adornments of his mind, and the energies of his soul, all exerted to their uttermost stretch, could not roll back one hair's breadth the wheel of time's chariot; that which had been was written with the adamantine pen of reality, on the everlasting volume of the past; nor could agony and tears suffice to wash out one iota from the act fulfilled. I.8
