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Furthermost

Definition: Furthermost

Furthermost

Adjective

1. Comparatives of "far"; most remote in space or time or order; "had traveled to the farthest frontier"; "don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree"; "explored the furthest reaches of space"; "the utmost tip of the peninsula".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "furthermost" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)


Synonyms: Furthermost

Synonyms: farthermost (adj), farthest (adj), furthest (adj), utmost (adj), uttermost (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Furthermost

English words defined with "furthermost": farthermost, farthest, furthestutmost, uttermost. (references)
Specialty definitions using "furthermost": adit end. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Furthermost

"Furthermost" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Furthermost" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Furthermost

Language Translations for "furthermost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

më i largët (extreme, farther, farthermost, farthest, furthest, hindmost, rearmost). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الأشد بعدا, ‏الأبعد (farthermost, farthest, furthest, outmost). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

най-преден (headmost), най-далечен (endmost, farthermost, farthest, furthest, ultimate). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nejvzdálenìjší (extreme, ultimate). (various references)

   

French

  

le plus lointain (furthermore, furthest), le plus éloigné (furthest). (various references)

   

German

  

am weitesten entfernt sein. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πιό μακρινόσ (furthest), απώτατοσ (farthermost, farthest, furthest, outmost, remotest). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

רחוק ביותר (farthermost, farthest, uttermost). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

legtávolabbi (extreme, farthermost, farthest, furthest, off, outermost, utmost, uttermost), legmesszebb fekvõ (furthest). (various references)

   

Italian

  

il più lontano (farthest, furthest, utmost). (various references)

   

Manx

  

odjey (longer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urthermostfay

   

Portuguese

  

mais longínquo, mais distante (farther, further, utmost). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

extrem (abject, exceeding, excessive, extreme, extremely, furthest, greatest, highest, like hell, outermost, paramount, steep, supreme, ultimate, unmitigated, utmost, uttermost), cel mai îndepãrtat (farther, farthest, furthest). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

самый дальний (farthermost, farthest, furthest). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

najdalji (further, furthest, utmost), krajnji (crass, externally, extreme, last, marginal, outermost, terminal, ultimate, ultra, utmost, uttermost). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

más lejos (beyond, farther, further, further away, furthest), más lejano (farther, farthest, further, furthest, utmost, uttermost). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ytterst (exceedingly, extreme, extremely, farthest, furthest, in the extreme, last, most, outermost, outmost, outside, uterly, utmost, utterly, very), borterst (extreme, farthermost, farthest), avlägsnast (furthest). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ไกลที่สุ" (endmost). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uçtaki, en uzak (endmost, far flung, farthermost, farthest, furthest, outermost, outmost, ultimate, utmost, uttermost), en ilerideki. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

найдальший (endmost, farthermost, outmost). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xa hơn hết. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Furthermost

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-h-m-o-r-r-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: frotteurs.

-3 letters: frotteur, furthers, furthest, mouthers, murthers, thruster, thrustor, tortures.

-4 letters: ferrous, ferrums, formers, fourths, fuhrers, furores, further, hurters, mothers, mouther, murther, mutters, oestrum, outsert, reforms, retorts, rhetors, rostrum, rotters, rouster, routers, shorter, shouter, shutter, smother, souther, stertor, stouter, termors, thermos, torture, tourers, touters, tremors, trouser, truster, trustor, tufters, turrets.

-5 letters: estrum, femurs, ferrum.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Furthermost


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 75 72 74 68 65 72 6D 6F 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01110101 01110010 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101111 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#117 &#114 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#114 &#109 &#111 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0075 0072 0074 0068 0065 0072 006D 006F 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4087848674718479818586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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