n. a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels

n. a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds

n. (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning"

n. a return or service that does not land within the in-bounds limits

n. the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season"

v. reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle; "The gay actor was outed last week"; "Someone outed a CIA agent"

v. persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"

v. be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out"

v. continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"

adv. outside of an enclosed space: "She is out"

adv. away from the reference point: "He kicked his legs out"

adv. "They went out last night"

adv. "I saw him last in London"

adv. the item at the end; "last, I'll discuss family values"

adj. occurring at the time of death; "his last words"; "the last rites"

adj. coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining; "the last time I saw Paris"; "the last day of the month"; "had the last word"; "waited until the last minute"; "he raised his voice in a last supreme call"; "the last game of the season"; "down to his last nickel"

adj. most unlikely or unsuitable; "the last person we would have suspected"; "the last man they would have chosen for the job"

adj. conclusive in a process or progression; "the final answer"; "a last resort"; "the net result"

adj. immediately past; "last Thursday"; "the last chapter we read"

adj. not worth considering as a possibility; "a picnic is out because of the weather"

adj. no longer fashionable; "that style is out these days"

adj. directed outward or serving to direct something outward; "the out doorway"; "the out basket"

adj. out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election; "now the Democrats are out"

adj. lowest in rank or importance; "last prize"; "in last place"

adj. not to be altered or undone; "the judge's decision is final"; "the arbiter will have the last say"

adj. outside or external; "the out surface of a ship's hull"

adj. outer or outlying; "the out islands"

adj. (unpopular)

adj. not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out"

adj. referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several); "in the latter case"

adj. occurring at or forming an end or termination; "his concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter"; "the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave"

adj. highest in extent or degree; "to the last measure of human endurance"; "whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually"

adj. "wears only the latest styles"; "the last thing in swimwear"; "everything's up to date in Kansas City"

adj. being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"

adj. not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests"

adj. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow

adj. excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject"

n. a coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his driver's license"

n. the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"

n. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

n. a final performance or effort (especially before retirement)

v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"

v. continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"

v. face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements"

v. stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"

v. fail to spoil or rot; "These potatoes keep for a long time"

v. be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

v. be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

v. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"

v. persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"

v. face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements"

v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

v. dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young"

v. live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"

adj. located farthest to the rear

adj. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board"

adj. existing or coming before

adj. incapable of being retracted or revoked; "firm and irrevocable is my doom"- Shakespeare

adj. putting an end to all debate or action; "a peremptory decree"

adj. forceful and extreme and rigorous; "drastic measures"

adj. not within reasonable limits; "immoderate laughter"; "immoderate spending"

adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

adj. markedly new or introducing radical change; "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views"

adj. having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism"

adj. up to the immediate present; most recent or most up-to-date; "the news is up-to-the-minute"; "the very latest scientific discoveries"

adj. of the present time and place; "the immediate revisions"

adj. having ceased to exist or live; "the will of a defunct aunt"; "a defunct Indian tribe"

adj. no longer in use; "obsolete words"

adj. without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage"

adj. forbidden by law

adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"

adj. not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"

adj. too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

adj. drawing to an end: "his declining years"

adj. being on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient"

adj. highly imaginative but unlikely; "a farfetched excuse"; "an implausible explanation"

adj. very unlikely; "an outside chance"; "a remote possibility"; "a remote contingency"

adj. representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment; "the crowning accomplishment of his career"

adj. conclusive in a process or progression; "the final answer"; "a last resort"; "the net result"

adj. expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating; "hope of eventual (or ultimate) rescue"; "if this trend continues it is not reasonable to expect the eventual collapse of the stock market"

adj. highest and most significant: "his highest achievement"

adj. (ultimate)

adj. final or last in your life or progress; "the supreme sacrifice"; "the supreme judgment"

adj. gone by; or in the past; "two years ago"; "`agone' is an archaic word for `ago'"

adj. belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece"

adj. well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"

adj. characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years"

adj. (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early; "a fashion popular in earlier times"; "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"; "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"

adj. of the distant past: "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times"

adj. belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"

adj. (combining form) former: "an ex-president"

adj. (used especially of persons) of the immediate past; "the former president"; "our late President is still very active"; "the previous occupant of the White House"

adj. belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character"

adj. belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"

adj. long past; "olden days"

adj. recently past; "the other evening"

adj. belonging to or existing in times before recorded history; "prehistoric settlements"; "prehistoric peoples"

adj. at a specific prior time; "the then president"

adj. in or of the month preceding the present one; "your letter received on the 29th ult"

adj. out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"

adj. marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

adj. primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"

adj. no longer fashionable; "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes"

adj. that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an outward journey"; "outward-bound ships"

adj. that is flowing outward

adj. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board"

adj. tried unsuccessfully; "attempted murder"

adj. disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"

adj. doomed to extinction

adj. lacking resources (or any prospect of resources)

adj. having acquired or gained nothing; "the returned from the negotiations empty-handed"

adj. unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture"

adj. having no points scores; "a scoreless inning"

adj. acting to defeat its own purpose; "it is self-defeating...to ignore the progress of events"

adj. of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities; "unfulfilled and uneasy men"; "unrealized dreams and ambitions"

adj. not one of the first three in a race or competition

adj. having no wins; "the team had a very disappointing winless season"

adj. lowest in rank or importance; "last prize"; "in last place"

adj. the lowest rank; "bottom member of the class"

adj. (worst)

adj. (worst)

adj. (worst)

adj. of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival

adj. supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement; "a definitive verdict"; "a determinate answer to the problem"

adj. being on or toward the outside of the body; "the outer ear"

adj. originating or belonging beyond some bounds:"the outside world"; "outside interests"; "an outside job"

adj. situated at the farthest possible point from a center

adj. on or toward an outer edge; "an outer lane"; "the outside lane"

adj. surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power; "a city and its satellite communities"

adj. regarded with aversion; "he was intensely disliked"

adj. not visited by many travelers; "the tourist's desire to visit less-traveled countries"

adj. far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90"

adj. past due; not paid at the scheduled time; "an overdue installment"; "a delinquent account"

adj. somewhat late

adj. occurring or coming into existence after a person's death; "a posthumous award"; "a posthumous book"; "a posthumous daughter"

adj. immediately before the present

adj. taking place at the close of a fiscal year; "year-end audit"

adj. at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill; "an advanced degree"; "an advanced text in physics"; "special seminars for small groups of advanced students at the University"

adj. being at a peak or culminating point; "broad day"; "full summer"

adj. consisting of or causing a climax; "a climactic development"

adj. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"

adj. overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks"

adj. of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses"

adj. more than usual: "high risks"; "high winds"; "great expectations"; "great worry"

adj. of education beyond the secondary level; "higher education"; "higher learning"

adj. advanced in complexity or elaboration; "higher finance"; "higher mathematics"

adj. ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual; "soaring prices"

adj. recently developed: "modern art"

adj. characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"

adj. relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs";

adj. brought up to date; "modernized methods"

adj. (used as a combining form) recent or new; "`neo' is a combining form in words like `neocolonialism'"

adj. the highest level of development at a particular time (especially the present time); "state-of-the-art technology"

adj. extremely modern; "Dadism and ultramodern art"

adj. not plugged in or connected to a power source; "the iron is disconnected"

adj. drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

adj. no longer having force or currency: "a dead issue"; "a dead law"

adj. (of a ball) "a ball that is out of play is dead"

adj. not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book"

adj. absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"

adj. in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli; "a comatose patient"

adj. unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless"

adj. concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness; "nonconscious psychic processes"

adj. (unconscious)

adj. in a state of partial coma

adj. just below the level of consciousness

adj. unsuitable or forbidden as a topic of conversation; "unmentionable words"

adj. forbidden to the touch; "in most museums such articles are untouchable"

adj. lying between two extremes in time or space or degree; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate level"

adj. preceding all others in time or space or degree; "the first house on the right"; "the first day of spring"; "his first political race"; "her first baby"; "the first time"; "the first meetings of the new party"; "the first phase of his training"

adj. occurring at the beginning; "took the initial step toward reconciliation"

adj. holding office; "the in party"

adj. happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering"

adj. relating to or being on the side closer to the center or within a defined space; "he reached into his inside jacket pocket"; "inside out"; "an inside pitch is between home plate and the batter"

adj. having reached a base without being put out; "the runner was called safe when the baseman dropped the ball"

adj. (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early; "a fashion popular in earlier times"; "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"; "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"

adj. too soon or too hasty; "our condemnation of him was a bit previous"; "a premature judgment"

adj. spatial sense; being or existing in a specified place; "the murderer is present in this room"; "present at the wedding"; "present at the creation"

adj. that may be permitted especially as according to rule; "permissible behavior in school"; "a permissible tax deduction"

adv. to or toward the inside of; "come in"; "smash in the door"