ultimate
/ˈʌltɪmət/
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American sound/ˈʌltɪmət/
ultimate
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ul - ti - mate -> ultimate
Myanmar meaning
(adj) နောက်ဆုံး။ အန္တိမ။ အဆုံးစွန်။ မူရင်း။ မူလ။ အခြေခံ။ (n) အဆုံးစွန်။
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၁။ နောက်ဆုံး။ အန္တိမ။
our ultimate aim/ goal ❍ Management must take ultimate responsibility for the late delivery. ❍ Nuclear weapons are the ultimate deterrent.
၂။ (infml ) အဆုံးစွန်။
the ultimate challenge ❍ suffer the ultimate embarrassment of public ridicule.
၃။ မူရင်း။ မူလ။ အခြေခံ။ the ultimate truths of philosophy and science.
n [sing] the ~ (in sth) (infml ) အဆုံးစွန်။
the ultimate in modern kitchen design.
❏ ultimately adv
၁။ နောက်ဆုံးတွင်။ Ultimately, you'll have to make the decision yourself.
၂။ မူလအစအားဖြင့်။ အခြေခံအားဖြင့်။ All matter ultimately consists of atoms
More examples
- The incident affected the ultimate outcome of the war.
- [ultimate goal/aim/objective] : Independence remains their ultimate political goal.
- Parents must have ultimate responsibility for their children’s safety.
- The ultimate decision must be made by the Chief Constable himself.
- They suffered the ultimate humiliation of defeat by their oldest enemies.
- The house provides the ultimate luxury retreat.
- The threat of strike action was their ultimate weapon in talks with management.
- Science is a search for the ultimate truths about the universe.
Synonyms
final, last, eventual, decisive, definitive, vital, crucial, critical, absolute, acme, bag it, basic, best, bourne, bring down curtain, bring to a close, bring to an end, bring to end, bring to fruition, bring to maturity, brought to a close, brought to fruition, butt end, button down, button up, buttoned down, buttoned up, buttoning up, call a day, call it a day, call shots, capping, capstone, carry off, carry through, carrying off, carrying through, categorical, chips down, cinched, clean up, cleaned up, close, closing, come to an end, complete, conclude, concluding, conclusive, consummate, crown, crowning point, cutoff point, cynosure, deal with, determine, do thoroughly, draw close, draw to close, drop the curtain, elemental, empyreal, empyrean, end, end point, epitome, essential, exemplification, extreme, extreme case, far out, farthermost, farthest, farthest point, farthest reach, fastigium, final curtain, finish, fix upon, fixed upon, fold up, fundamental, furthermost, furthest, furthest point, get done, get it together, get out of the way, get through, give up, go the distance, go the limit, go through with, go whole hog, got it together, greatest, hang it up, hang up, have done with, height, high point, highest, highest point, hindmost, incomparable, latest, latter, lattermost, lifeblood, limit, made good, make good, make short work of, making good, max, maxi, maximum, mop up, most, most distant, nailed down, ne plus ultra, neb, nib, nibs, nth degree, pack in, pack it in, packed in, paragon, paramount, peach, pin down, preeminent, primary, prorogate, prorogue, prorogued, pull the plug, pulling the plug, put a lid on, put an end to, put end to, put finishing touch on, put finishing touches on, put lid on, put the lid on, put to bed, quiddity, quintessence, radical, round out, sew up, sewed up, significant, sublimation, sublime, sublimity, superlative, supreme
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