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Utmost   /ˈətmˌoʊst/   Listen
Utmost

adjective
1.
Of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity.  Synonyms: extreme, uttermost.  "Extreme caution" , "Extreme pleasure" , "Utmost contempt" , "To the utmost degree" , "In the uttermost distress"
2.
Highest in extent or degree.  Synonym: last.  "Whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually"
3.
(comparatives of 'far') most remote in space or time or order.  Synonyms: farthermost, farthest, furthermost, furthest, uttermost.  "Don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree" , "Explored the furthest reaches of space" , "The utmost tip of the peninsula"
noun
1.
The greatest possible degree.  Synonyms: level best, maximum, uttermost.






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... remains for the teacher, then, to select the most important facts and to bring them before the class by various means as fully as the time will permit, remembering in the choice and presentation of subjects that it is of the utmost importance to get the student to approach the new ...
— Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English - Based on the Requirements for Admission to College • Gilbert Sykes Blakely

... benefit can be derived from my limited experience. I am a humble student in floral architecture, and I offer my few suggestions to fellow-pupils, to those who aim unsuccessfully at home adornment, whose utmost skill often only attains sublime failures—not to the geniuses ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... the Indians, and the declaration of war with England found him promoted to the rank of captain. Within sixty days after the commencement of hostilities in 1812, the imbecility of Hull lost to the country its Michigan territory, and fearfully jeoparded the whole northwestern region. It was of the utmost importance to intrust the few and feeble forts of that great dominion to men of established valor and discretion. Captain Taylor was at once invested with the command of FORT HARRISON, situated on the Wabash, in ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various

... the outer skin of the bar, to remove metal which has been cold-worked. Then heat slowly just through the critical range and cool in the furnace, in order to produce a very fine grain. Tools machined from such stock, and hardened with the utmost care, will have the best chance to survive without ...
— The Working of Steel - Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel • Fred H. Colvin

... after all, to be with people who did not regard Venice simply as affording exceptional opportunities for bathing and adultery, but who were reverently if confusedly aware that they were in the presence of something unique and ineffable, and determined to make the utmost of their privilege. ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton


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