uttermost

[uht-er-mohst or, esp. British, -muh st]

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adjective

most remote or outermost; farthest: the uttermost stars.

of the greatest or highest degree, quantity, etc.; greatest: The country's art has reached uttermost creativity.

noun

utmost.

Origin of uttermost

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at utter², -most

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Related Words for uttermost

last, utmost, final, farthest, furthest, outermost, furthermost, outmost, remotest

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Historical Examples of uttermost

Where he thinks a contempt due, he pays it to the uttermost.
Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9)
Samuel Richardson
He had expressed it, he thought, to the uttermost, by letting her go at all.
The Incomplete Amorist
E. Nesbit
I owe him reparation, and it shall be paid to the uttermost penny.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 February 15, 1890
Various
And Spurling—if Spurling dwells near us in the uttermost parts of the earth?
Murder Point
Coningsby Dawson
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

British Dictionary definitions for uttermost

uttermost

adjective, noun

a variant of utmost

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Word Origin and History for uttermost

c.1300, from utter + -most. More recent than utmost. Middle English also had uttermore (late 14c.), now, alas, no longer with us.