| 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 |
| Main Entry: | eventual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | future, concluding |
| Synonyms: | closing, conditional, consequent, contingent, dependent, down the pike, down the road, ending, endmost, ensuing, final, hindmost, in the cards, indirect, inevitable, last, later, latter, overall, possible, prospective, resulting, secondary, succeeding, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, vicarious |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | extreme |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | faraway |
| Synonyms: | far-off, farthest, final, furthermost, last, most distant, outermost, outmost, remotest, terminal, ultimate, utmost, uttermost |
| Antonyms: | close, near |
| Main Entry: | fatal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly, lethal |
| Synonyms: | baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, deathly, destructive, disastrous, fateful, final, ill-fated, ill-starred, incurable, inevitable, killing, malefic, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, terminal, virulent |
| Notes: | use fatal for something which has caused someone's death; use lethal for something which is capable of killing someone |
| Antonyms: | healthful, life-giving, nourishing, vital, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | final |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ending, last |
| Synonyms: | closing, concluding, crowning, end, eventual, finishing, hindmost, lag, last-minute, latest, latter, supreme, terminal, terminating, ultimate |
| Notes: | final means occurring at or forming an end or not to be altered or undone, while a finale is the concluding part of any performance |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencing, first, opening, starting |
| Main Entry: | incurable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfixable, unchangeable |
| Synonyms: | cureless, deadly, fatal, hopeless, immedicable, impossible, inoperable, irrecoverable, irremediable, irreparable, nowhere to go, out of time, remediless, serious, terminal, uncorrectable, unrecoverable |
| Antonyms: | curable, healable, medicable, operable |
| Main Entry: | last |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | final; newest |
| Synonyms: | aftermost, antipodal, at the end, bitter end, climactic, closing, concluding, conclusive, crowning, curtains, definitive, determinate, determinative, end, ending, endwise, eventual, extreme, far, far-off, farthest, finishing, furthest, hindmost, lag, latest, least, lowest, meanest, most recent, once and for all, outermost, rearmost, remotest, supreme, swan song, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, utmost, uttermost |
| Notes: | last is the lowest in an ordering or series while latter means referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned |
| Antonyms: | beginning, first, front, initial, introductory, oldest, primary, starting |
| Main Entry: | latter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | latest, concluding |
| Synonyms: | closing, eventual, final, following, hindmost, lag, last, last-mentioned, later, modern, rearmost, recent, second, terminal |
| Notes: | last is the lowest in an ordering or series while latter means referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned latter means referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned; former means referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned |
| Antonyms: | earliest, former, preceding |
| Main Entry: | mortal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly |
| Synonyms: | bitter, death-dealing, deathly, destructive, dire, ending, extreme, fatal, grave, great, grievous, grim, intense, killing, last, lethal, malignant, merciless, monstrous, mortiferous, murderous, noxious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, severe, terminal, terrible, unrelenting |
| Antonyms: | invigorating, lifegiving, permanent, refreshing |