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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Being or situated at the most distant limit or point; farthest: the utmost tip of the peninsula.
  2. adj. Of the highest or greatest degree, amount, or intensity; most extreme: a matter of the utmost importance.
  3. n. The greatest possible amount, degree, or extent; the maximum: worked every day to the utmost of her abilities.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Being at the furthest point or extremity or bound; furthest; extreme; last.
  2. Of the greatest or highest degree, number, quantity, or the like: as, the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness.
  3. n. The extreme limit or extent.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Situated at the most distant limit; farthest
  2. adj. The most extreme; ultimate; greatest
  3. n. maximum; greatest possible amount or quantity.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme.
  2. adj. Being in the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or the like; greatest.
  3. n. The most that can be; the farthest limit; the greatest power, degree, or effort.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the greatest possible degree
  2. adj. of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
  3. adj. highest in extent or degree
  4. adj. (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order

Etymologies

  1. Old English ut ("out") + -most (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English ūtmest : ūt, out; see ud- in Indo-European roots + -mest, -most. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Jiang says local authorities are treating the situation in what she described as the utmost seriousness.”

    Voice of America: China Determined to Suppress Inner Mongolia Protesters

  • “The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claims security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2007

  • “The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claimed security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2007

  • “The images just smuggled out by men and women who risked their lives are at least two days old, the pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claimed security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2007

  • “There is also that which we call the utmost perfection, and that is it which cannot be added to, or taken from him; and so God only is perfect.”

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03

  • “And, by the way; Chiapas is not a place with beautiful beaches but has a huge, uninviting and undeveloped coastal region of dismal black sand and turbid Pacific coastal waters interspersed with poverty stricken and impossibly hot and humid villages existing in utmost poverty.”

    Plan Puebla-Panama. Yay or Nay?

  • “But he does show a passionate interest in this life, and a very strong belief in the importance of the way it is lived in relations to our fellows, so that we may gain the utmost from the ripening processes of experience and of love.”

    Shakespeare as Christ

  • “Where it had been there was a scar, a deep, magnificent yellow tear that split the purple sky in utmost evasiveness.”

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  • “At the finish of his term the utmost that he can expect in the way of reward not expressible in terms of the national currency is that not much more than one-half of his countrymen will believe him a scoundrel to the end of their days.”

    The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909

  • “Soldiers are required to do what's called their utmost and to render assistance to their comrades.”

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2003

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. extreme
  1. greatest

equivalents (3)

Other words for ‘utmost’

  1. intense
  1. high
  1. far

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. limit
  1. bound
  1. boundary

same context (12)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. equal
  2. apparent
  1. infinite
  2. extreme
  1. uncommon
  2. excessive
  1. especial
  2. with
  1. habitual
  2. unwonted
  1. inward
  2. supreme

reverse dictionary (105)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. utmost
  2. extremely
  3. uttermost
  4. outmost
  5. extreme
  6. finish
  7. extremity
  8. fare-thee-well
  9. insane
  10. limit
  11. hurrah's nest
  12. break
  13. consummate
  14. heart and soul
  15. heat
  16. height
  17. high water
  18. last
  19. utterance
  20. best
  21. at best
  1. brunt
  2. maximally
  3. ne plus ultra
  4. outgoing
  5. outstrain
  6. perfectible
  7. peroxidation
  8. peroxidize
  9. spurt
  10. superlatively
  11. supremely
  12. full
  13. à outrance
  14. choke-full
  15. deepmost
  16. nth
  17. knock
  18. momentous
  19. larger than life
  20. all get-out
  21. abominable
  1. adorable
  2. adore
  3. force
  4. fortissimo
  5. damnedest
  6. strain
  7. main
  8. ultimate
  9. straining
  10. strenuous
  11. all
  12. humanism
  13. worth
  14. outside
  15. utterest
  16. extend
  17. extend oneself
  18. momentousness
  19. arduous
  20. niding
  21. outrance
  1. to rack one's brains
  2. sostenuto
  3. sovereign
  4. spirit of sense
  5. to be on the stretch
  6. sum
  7. summit
  8. summity
  9. superlative
  10. supreme
  11. tiptop
  12. to
  13. tooth and nail
  14. top
  15. torment
  16. to put to one's trumps
  17. tug
  18. utterness
  19. whip and spur
  20. on the wings of the wind
  21. accurate
  1. acme
  2. adoration
  3. assurance
  4. bent
  5. bottom
  6. diametrical
  7. extent
  8. fulfil
  9. full-mouthed
  10. good
  11. harem
  12. high
  13. maximum
  14. most
  15. nonessential
  16. notwithstanding
  17. peribolos
  18. neighborhood
  19. type
  20. utopia
  21. utter

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