being the last or concluding element of a series; "the ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict'' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable";
furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man''s ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one''s ultimate goal in life";
being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything; "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple";
