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Definition: Uttermost |
UttermostAdjective1. Of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress". 2. 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". Noun1. The greatest possible degree; "he tried his utmost". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uttermost" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonyms: UttermostSynonyms: extreme (adj), farthermost (adj), farthest (adj), furthermost (adj), furthest (adj), utmost(a) (adj), uttermost(a) (adj), level best (n), maximum (n), utmost (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Distance | Adverb: far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond; outre mer, over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away "; from pole to pole; (over great space); to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to. |
Greatness | Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute). |
Space | Adverb: extensively; Adjective: wherever; everywhere; far and near, far and wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land; under the sun, in every quarter; in all quarters, in all lands; here there and everywhere; from pole to pole, from China to Peru, from Indus to the pole, from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end; on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass; to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Uttermost |
| English words defined with "uttermost": extreme ♦ utmost, Utterest, Utterness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "uttermost": A l'outrance. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "uttermost": Outermost ♦ Uttermore. (references) |
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| "Uttermost" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uttermost" is used about 21 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "uttermost": to the uttermost of ♦ to the uttermost parts of the earth. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
uttermost | 21 |
mirror uttermost | 9 |
lighting uttermost | 8 |
lamp uttermost | 8 |
company uttermost | 6 |
co uttermost | 3 |
clock uttermost | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "uttermost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | më i plotë, i skajshëm (abysmal, desperate, dire, extreme, outside). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غاية (aim, destination, end, goal, mean, object, plan, point, purpose, tendency), أقصى (extreme, farthest, maximum, most, outside, ultimate, utmost), أعلى (above, chief, maximal, maximum, paramount, super, superior, supreme, terminal, top, topmost, upmost, upper), أعظم (greater, paramount, super, utmost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | краен (completive, distal, dizzy, end, endmost, eventual, extreme, final, high, intense, intolerant, latter, marginal, out-, outside, profuse, rabid, red-hot, sublime, supreme, terminal, terminative, terrible, ultimate, unmerciful, utmost, utter, veriest, wild-eyed), най-голям (all, most, outside, peak, supreme, top, utmost, veriest), най-висок (peak, supreme, top, topmost, utmost), най-отдалечен (extreme, farthermost, farthest, inmost, innermost, outermost, utmost), последен (dernier, end, final, lag, last, last ditch, latest, latter, lattermost, new, outside, parting, recent, red-hot, terminal, the last, ultimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nejzazší (extreme, hindmost, ultimate, utmost), nejvìtší (greatest, star), krajní (excessive, extreme, outer, outmost, ultra, utmost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حداکثر (Extreme, Peak, Utmost), حداعلی (Culmination, Utter), بیشترین (Maximum, Most, Superlative, Utmost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | suprême (utmost), maximum (utmost), le plus grand (utmost), le plus éloigné (utmost), extrême (utmost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | entfernteste (furthest, ultimate), äußerst (awfully, deucedly, exceedingly, excessively, extreme, extremely, heartily, intensely, most, outermost, outmost, scrupulously, superlative, supremely, utmost, utter, utterly, vastly, veriest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έσχατοσ (dire, extreme, hindmost, nethermost, outermost, rearmost, ultimate, utmost), άκροσ (climactic, climactical, extreme, terminal, ultra, utmost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | רחוק ביותר (farthermost, farthest, furthermost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | legvégsõ (utmost), legtávolabbi (extreme, farthermost, farthest, furthermost, furthest, off, outermost, utmost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | supremo (chief, extraordinary, great, highest, last, paramount, supreme, ultimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sodjey magh (outermost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermostuttay extremo (extreme, furthest, high, intense, outdoor, outermost, outmost, out-of-door, outside, plaguy, supreme, surpassing, ultra, utmost, utter). (various references) extrem (abject, exceeding, excessive, extreme, extremely, furthermost, furthest, greatest, highest, like hell, outermost, paramount, steep, supreme, ultimate, unmitigated, utmost), cumplit (atrocious, cruel, dreadful, eerie, fell, ferocious, fierce, grievous, horrendous, mad, monstrous, outrageous, severe, terrible, utter). (various references) самый отдаленный (utmost). (various references) iomallach. (various references) potpun (absolute, complete, consummate, crass, downright, outright, plenary, stark, thorough-paced, total, unmixed, utter), krajnji (crass, externally, extreme, furthermost, last, marginal, outermost, terminal, ultimate, ultra, utmost), apsolutan (absolute, flat, utter). (various references) más lejano (farther, farthest, further, furthermost, furthest, utmost). (various references) yttersta (extreme, utmost, utter), störst (biggest, last, paramount, utmost). (various references) son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, damned, darned, deadly, deeply, desperately, dire, direful, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intense, intensely, jolly, last, out and out, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, veriest, with a vengeance), en uzak (endmost, far flung, farthermost, farthest, furthermost, furthest, outermost, outmost, ultimate, utmost), en son (aftermost, endmost, final, last, latest, supreme, the very last, ultimate, utmost), en fazla (at best, at most, at the furthest, at the outside, at the utmost, at the very most, furthest, maximal, maximum, most, utmost). (various references) крайній (bottom, dire, extreme, extremistic, hindmost, marginal, out, outside, ultimate, utmost), останній (aftermost, bottom, final, last, latter, rearmost, ultimate, utmost), найвіддаленіший (farthest, furthest, hindmost, ultimate, utmost), найбільше (at most, best, most, utmost, worst). (various references) xa nhất (endmost, extreme, farthermost, utmost), vô cùng (ad infinitum, almighty, consumedly, day, deeply, dreadfully, extremely, frightfuly, half, halves, most, parlous, passing, plaguy, precious, preciously, rank, termless, thundering, utmost), tột bực (consummate, extreme, extremely, utmost), mức tối đa (utmost), cuối cùng hết sức (utmost), cực điểm (culmination, paroxysm, paroxysmal, utmost, zenith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Amhn legw soi ou mh exelqhV ekeiqen ewV an apodwV ton escaton kodranthn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Amen dico tibi non exies inde donec reddas novissimum quadrantem |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Soðes ic segge þe ne gæst þu þanenær þu agylde þanne ytemeste ferþyng. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Treuli Y seie to thee, thou shalt not go out fro thennus, til thou yelde the last ferthing. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | I say vnto ye verely: thou shalt not come out thece till thou have payed ye utmost farthige. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Verily, I say to thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Truly I say to you, You will not come out from there till you have made payment of the very last farthing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 26 |
| Cebuano | Sa pagkatinuod, magaingon ako kanimo, nga dili ka na gayud unya makagowa gikan didto hangtud kabayran mo na ang katapusang sintabo. |
| Croatian | Zaita, kažem ti, neæeš iziæi odande dok ne isplatiš do posljednjeg novèiæa." |
| Danish | Sandelig, siger jeg dig, du skal ingenlunde komme ud derfra, førend du får betalt den sidste Hvid. |
| Dutch | Voorwaar, Ik zeg u: Gij zult daar geenszins uitkomen, totdat gij den laatsten penning zult betaald hebben. |
| Finnish | Totisesti minä sanon sinulle: sieltä et pääse, ennenkuin maksat viimeisenkin rovon. |
| French | Je te le dis en vérité, tu ne sortiras pas de l que tu n`aies payé le dernier quadrant. |
| German | Ich sage dir wahrlich: Du wirst nicht von dannen herauskommen, bis du auch den letzten Heller bezahlest. |
| Haitian Creole | Sa m'ap di ou la, se vre wi: ou p'ap soti nan prizon an toutotan ou pa peye dènye lajan yo mande ou la. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dan ingatlah: Pasti kalian tidak akan bisa keluar dari penjara itu, sebelum seluruh dendamu lunas sama sekali." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dengan sesungguhnya Aku berkata kepadamu: Sekali-kali tiada engkau dapat keluar dari sana, selagi engkau belum menjelaskan utangmu sehabis-habisnya. |
| Italian | In verit ti dico: non uscirai di l finché tu non abbia pagato fino all'ultimo spicciolo! |
| Latvian | Patiesi es tev saku, ka no turienes tu neizkïûsi, kamçr nebûsi samaksâjis pçdçjo artavu. |
| Manx Gaelic | Dy firrinagh ta mee gra rhyt, Nagh jig oo magh ass shen, derrey t'ou er n'eeck yn farling s'jerree. |
| Maori | He pono taku e mea atu nei ki a koe, E kore rawa koe e puta i reira, kia utua ra ano te patene whakamutunga. |
| Norwegian | Sannelig sier jeg dig: Du skal ingenlunde komme ut derfra før du har betalt den siste øre. |
| Portuguese | Em verdade te digo que de maneira nenhuma sairás dali enquanto não pagares o último ceitil. |
| Rumanian | Adevqrat kyi spun cq nu vei iewi deacolo pknq nu vei plqti cel din urmq bqnuy.`` |
| Russian | ЙУФЙООП ЗПЧПТА ФЕ'Е: ФЩ ОЕ ЧЩК"ЕЫШ ПФФХ"Б, ПЛБ ОЕ ПФ"БЫШ "П ПУМЕ"ОЕЗП ЛП"ТБОФБ. |
| Shuar | Tura nekas tajai, nui enkemamka Ashí rearchisha akikmachkumka Jíinkishtatme' Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | De cierto te digo que jamás saldrás de allí hasta que pagues el último cuadrante. |
| Swahili | Kweli nakwambia, hutatoka humo mpaka umemaliza kulipa senti ya mwisho. |
| Swedish | Sannerligen säger jag dig: Du skall icke slippa ut därifrån, förrän du har betalt den yttersta skärven. |
| Uma | Mpu'u-mpu'u ku'uli': uma-tapa tebahaka ngkai rala tarungku' ane da koo-ko'ia oti tabayari waya' -ta. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "uttermost": uttermosts. (additional references) | |
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"Uttermost" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ottermus, uthermost. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-o-r-s-t-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: tetotums. | |
-2 letters: mutters, oestrum, outsert, stouter, stretto, stutter, tetotum, totters, touters. | |
-3 letters: estrum, metros, motets, mottes, mouser, muster, mutest, mutter, otters, ouster, outers, outset, rottes, routes, setout, souter, stoure, tortes, totems, toters, totter, touter, trouts, truest, tumors, tutors, utmost, utters. | |
-4 letters: euros, meous, metro, mores, morse, morts, moste, motes, motet, motte, motts, moues, mouse. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-o-r-s-t-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: uttermosts. | |
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