ultimate

adj

1. (not-comparable)Final; last in a series.

   “[…] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]”

2. (not-comparable)Last in a word or other utterance.
3. Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.

   “the ultimate pleasure”

   “the ultimate disappointment”

   “Not that we consider this as the most desirable channel in which these affections should be made to flow. The good that is done in this way, is by no means in proportion to the good that is intended. Injudicious charity has probably been productive of far more ultimate evil, than the coldest and most indiscriminating selfishness.”

4. Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
5. (not-comparable)That will happen at some time; eventual.
6. (not-comparable)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 cannot rationally contradict”

7. (not-comparable)Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

   “an ultimate constituent of matter”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
2. (countable, uncountable)The final or most distant point; the conclusion
3. (countable, uncountable)The greatest extremity; the maximum
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee or ultimate disc.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive)To finish; to complete.

   “These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.”