| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | The greatest quantity or highest degree attainable: maximum, outside, top, utmost, uttermost. Idioms: ne plus ultra. See HIGH, LIMITED. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Of or being an irreducible element: basic, elemental, elementary, essential, fundamental, primitive, underlying. See SURFACE. 2. Most distant or remote, as from a center: extreme, farthermost, farthest, furthermost, furthest, outermost, outmost, utmost, uttermost. See BIG, EDGE. 3. Of or relating to a terminative condition, stage, or point: final, last1, latter, terminal. See START. 4. Greatest in quantity or highest in degree that has been or can be attained: maximal, maximum, top, topmost, utmost, uttermost. See HIGH, LIMITED. 5. Of the greatest possible degree, quality, or intensity: extreme, supreme, transcendent, unsurpassable, utmost, uttermost. See BETTER, BIG.
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