n. the finest or most superior quality of its kind; "the ultimate in luxury"

adj. 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"

adj. 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"

adj. 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"

adj. the greatest or most complete or best possible; "maximal expansion"; "maximum pressure"

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

adj. most important element; "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch"

adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"

adj. (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage; "patent ductus arteriosus"

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people

adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"

adj. normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good"

adj. of qualities that are spread throughout something; "ambition is immanent in human nature"; "we think of God as immanent in nature"

adj. third from last

adj. being or situated at an end; "the endmost pillar"; "terminal buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal syllable"

adj. delivered at the moment of parting as if in flight or retreat; "paused to deliver a parting shot at the door"; "a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy"- Bret Harte

adj. next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the next-to-last column"

adj. used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college; "the senior prom"

adj. near but not precisely at an end; "a subterminal band of color on the tail feathers"

adj. providing for termination; "a program with a sunset provision"

adj. characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity; "a simplistic theory of the universe"; "simplistic arguments of the ruling party"

adj. having only one part or element; "a simplex word has no affixes and is not part of a compound--like `boy' compared with `boyish' or `house' compared with `houseboat'"

adj. made easy or uncomplicated

adj. representing the furthest possible extent of analysis or division into parts; "a feeling is a simple and undecomposable mental state"- G.S.Brett; "this weight of evidence is something mystical and unanalyzable"-M.R.Cohen

adj. lacking complexity; "small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated machine"

adj. closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects; "news of his proximate arrival"; "interest in proximate rather than ultimate goals"

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