upmost
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈʌpmoʊst/
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superior
Examples
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Mr. President, I have records for you of the upmost importance.
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Discretion is of the upmost importance here.
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- My client wishes to maintain the upmost confidentiality.
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Could the Federal Reserve end one of the most important use cases for cryptocurrency, instantaneous transactions with the upmost security?
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Don't worry, because our technicians are doing their upmost to rectify the situation, yeah.
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Down, down she goes, as if boring for bottom, and when it is perfectly certain that she can never by any chance right herself, she comes nose upmost with a jerk, shakes off the water, and attacks a new mountain to repeat the same performance on the farther side.
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The treasure is hidden at the upmost part of the mountain.
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The upmost shelf in the library holds the rarest books.
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He placed the flag at the upmost point of the pole.
Synonyms
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1.0
Located at the highest position
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Above something else, near the top
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At the very top
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At the highest part of something that is above all other parts
Antonyms
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
upmost = (transparent) = up + most
The adjective is directly formed from 'up' plus the superlative element '-most', yielding a clear spatial superlative meaning. [Postprocessing: moved 'up' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Upmost is made of up and most, so it literally means 'most up' or 'nearest the top'. That's why something described as upmost is the highest in position or place.