utmost
- adjective
- /ˈʌtmoʊst/
- I want you to know that your guidance and support is of the utmost importance to me.
- utmost importance
- utmost seriousness
- utmost caution
I have the utmost empathy for all first responders.
- I have the utmost empathy for all first responders.
- You are also, most importantly, caring for yourself with the utmost care and compassion.
- And I was like, I I have the utmost faith in you.
- So taking care of your people is of the utmost importance.
- It goes without saying that knowing where your food comes from is of the utmost importance.
- Quote, nearly all great advances in civilizations have come during periods of utmost internationalism.
- And I have to thank all the other colleagues, my science of friends, of course, utmost support from the Dean.
- I'm going to have the utmost confidence in this look, and I'm going to nail it.
- And obviously, you know, Mira takes the utmost care into selecting their dogs and I trust them.
- I, I say that with the utmost, utmost truth, man.
- It's, it's scarcity to the utmost extreme and it can never be filled.
- And that's why it is utmost important that Elon Musk succeed.
- And so first and foremost, that the utmost compassion needs to be attended to the wound.
- Subreddit for revenge taken to the utmost extreme.
- So, he says, all identity dissolves away, for the utmost disparity now occupies the scene.
Examples
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You know I have the utmost respect for you.
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I have the utmost empathy for all first responders.
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So taking care of your people is of the utmost importance.
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So I think that spring is of utmost importance.
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A matter of the utmost importance.
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The role that technology plays in student achievement is of utmost importance in higher education.
Academic text (2012) -
Western unity on issues such as the future of Ukraine is therefore of the utmost importance.
Academic text (2008) -
The emotional well-being of a child is of utmost importance when developing the mathematics curriculum.
Academic text (1999) -
It is time to speak with the utmost frankness.
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Taking care of your people is of the utmost importance in our organization.
Synonyms
Very far away in place or in degree
Highest in rank, quality, or importance
Last and most extreme in a series
The highest possible amount or level
Complete to show the highest degree
Better than all others in quality or importance
The greatest possible in amount, degree, or size
At the farthest or most extreme point
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
How Great
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The adjective utmost combines ut- ('out') and most ('greatest'), so it originally meant 'most out' or at the highest degree. That's why something of utmost importance is the most important or at the maximum level.