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📍 Farthest or most extreme 🔝 The highest degree
uttermost

uttermost

1 7.0
At the farthest or most extreme point
  • adjective
  • /ˈʌtərˌmoʊst/
translation icon : extremo
  • If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me" (Ps 139:7,9).
  • the uttermost end
  • the uttermost part

And a chaos, chaos, the uttermost chaos ensued.

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Examples

  • We stand at the uttermost tip of this plateau with its scattered houses and leftovers.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • There was provided about $3.00 per capita last year, from all sources, to carry the Gospel to the uttermost ends of the world through the Foreign Mission Board.

    Blog text (19)

  • Unless at the uttermost end of need.

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

  • Put my love to the proof, the uttermost proof... so we may know that nothing can destroy our love, nothing.

    The Garden of Allah (1936)

  • We should also witness to the uttermost parts of the earth.

    Blog text (19)

  • You have encouraged us to love more right where God has us and then to the uttermost parts of the world.

    Blog text (33)

  • One hundred years ago, Scott traveled to the "uttermost end of the world" for the same reasons.

    Blog text (30)

  • The Scripture says that we should witness, beginning where we are and extending to the uttermost parts of the world.

    Blog text (19)

  • The question is whether we are personally using one or more of them in order to share the Word in our church community, in our Judea, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.

    Blog text (19)

  • The explorer traveled to the uttermost reaches of the Arctic, where few have ventured.

Synonyms

extremely
vsuttermost
∞ 1.0

To a very great degree

is more absolute also applying to final limits and distance
utterly
vsuttermost
236 3.6

Completely, to show that something is very strong or very great

is similar but can also mean the most distant limit or extreme
farthest
vsuttermost
41 1.0

At the greatest distance in space or time

is more general covering extreme limits of degree as well as distance
supremely
vsuttermost
26 4.5

To a very high degree

is broader also including physical distance or final extreme
to the max
vsuttermost
  • Informal
13 7.7

As much as possible

is wider also applying to extreme distance as well as intensity
to the nth degree
vsuttermost
3 6.1

Very extreme in every way

is similar but also covers extreme distance as well as intensity
furthest
vsuttermost
1 2.1

To the greatest degree or most advanced stage in ideas and actions

is similar but also covers physical distance as a concrete limit
furthermost
vsuttermost
1 6.7

At the farthest distance in space, time, or order

is broader also applying to extreme degree not only spatial distance
farthermost
vsuttermost
8.0

Most distant in place, time, or order

is wider including extreme degree and final limits beyond mere distance

Antonyms

least
1 1.0

A very small amount or something of low importance

How Extreme

uttermost
1 7.0
largely
602 2.4
partly
375 1.0
hardly
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

uttermost positive

Morphology

uttermost = utter (transparent) = utter + most

The adjective is transparently formed from 'utter' + '-most' indicating the extreme degree; the structure and meaning are directly inferable.

Etymology

Uttermost comes from the old word utter, which meant 'outer', plus most, meaning 'most'. So as an adjective it keeps the idea of being 'farthest' or 'most extreme', meaning 'at the greatest distance or degree'.