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concluding
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | final, deadly |
| Synonyms: | bounding, check out*, closing, concluding, eventual, extreme, fatal, hindmost, incurable, killing, lag, last, latest, latter, lethal, limiting, mortal, on way out, period, ultimate, utmost |
| Notes: | a terminus is simply the end or conclusion of something, but a terminal is a structure or installation erected at a terminus |
| Antonyms: | beginning, initial, opening, reviving, starting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ultimate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | last, final |
| Synonyms: | capping, chips down, closing, concluding, conclusive, decisive, end, eventual, extreme, far out, farthermost, farthest, final curtain, furthermost, furthest, hindmost, latest, latter, lattermost, most distant, terminal |
| Antonyms: | beginning, first, introductory, opening |
| Main Entry: | hindmost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | last |
| Synonyms: | concluding, final, rear |
| Antonyms: | first, leading |
| Main Entry: | making |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | totaling |
| Synonyms: | adding up to, aggregating, completing, computing, concluding, consisting of, constituting, producing, reckoning, summing |
| Main Entry: | closing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | last |
| Synonyms: | concluding, final, finishing, terminating, winding up |
| Main Entry: | lattermost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | last |
| Synonyms: | aftermost, antipodal, at the end, bitter end, climactic, closing, concluding, conclusive, crowning, curtains, definitive, determinate, determinative, end, ending, endmost, eventual, extreme, far, far-off, farthest, finishing, furthest, hindermost, hindmost, lag, latest*, least, lowest, meanest, most recent, once and for all, outermost, rearmost, remotest, supreme, swan song, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, utmost, uttermost |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rearmost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | last |
| Synonyms: | aftermost, antipodal, at the end, bitter end, climactic, closing, concluding, conclusive, crowning, curtains, definitive, determinate, determinative, end, ending, endmost, eventual, extreme, far, far-off, farthest, finishing, furthest, hindermost, hindmost, lag, latest*, lattermost, least, lowest, meanest, most recent, once and for all, outermost, remotest, supreme, swan song, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, utmost, uttermost |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rumination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, apprehending, attention, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, cognition, concluding, consideration, considering, contemplation, deducing, deduction, deliberation, deriving, discerning, excogitation, heed, hope, ideation, inducing, inferring, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, logic, meditation, musing, perceiving, rationalization, rationalizing, realizing, reasoning, reflection, regard, scrutiny, seeing, speculation, study, theorization, thinking, understanding |
| Main Entry: | accomplish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | succeed in doing |
| Synonyms: | achieve, arrive, attain, bring about, bring off, carry out, conclude, consummate, do, do a bang-up job, do justice, do one proud, do the trick, effect, finish, fulfill, gain, get someplace, get there, hit*, make hay, make it, manage, nail it, perform, produce, pull off, put it over, rack up, reach, realize, score*, sew up, take care of, win |
| Notes: | achieve means 'to bring to a successful conclusion' (literally French 'to bring to a head') and accomplish means 'to perform fully'; the completion of achievement is more comprehensive |
| Antonyms: | abandon, fail, give up, not finish, nullify, relinquish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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