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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | highest, utmost |
| Synonyms: | best, biggest, greatest, largest, maximal, most, mostest, outside, paramount, superlative, supreme, top, topmost, ultimate |
| Antonyms: | least, lowest, minimum, smallest |
| Main Entry: | overriding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | central, most important |
| Synonyms: | cardinal, compelling, determining, dominant, final, main, major, number one, overruling, paramount, pivotal, predominant, prevailing, primary, prime, principal, ruling, supreme, ultimate |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, least, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | paragon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outstanding example |
| Synonyms: | apotheosis, archetype, beau ideal, beauty, best, champ, champion, crackerjack*, cream*, criterion, cynosure, epitome, essence, exemplar, gem, ideal, jewel*, love, lovely, model, nonesuch, nonpareil, original, paradigm, pattern, peach, perfection, pick, prototype, quintessence, standard, sublimation, tops, trump*, ultimate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | preeminent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | most important; superior |
| Synonyms: | capital, chief, consummate, distinguished, dominant, excellent, foremost, incomparable, main, major, matchless, number one, outstanding, paramount, peerless, predominant, principal, renowned, stellar, supreme, surpassing, towering, transcendent, ultimate, unequalled, unmatchable, unrivalled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed |
| Antonyms: | inferior, low, unimportant, unknown |
| Main Entry: | primary/prime |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, fundamental |
| Synonyms: | basal, beginning, bottom, central, elemental, elementary, essential, first, foundational, introductory, meat-and-potatoes, original, primitive, principal, radical, rudimentary, simple, three R's, ultimate, underivative, underived, underlying |
| Antonyms: | auxiliary, secondary, supplemental |
| Main Entry: | quintessence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence, core |
| Synonyms: | apotheosis, bottom, distillation, epitome, essentiality, extract, gist, heart, kernel, last word, lifeblood, marrow, pith, quiddity, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, ultimate, virtuality |
| Antonyms: | extra |
| Main Entry: | supreme |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greatest, principal |
| Synonyms: | absolute, best, cardinal, chief, closing, crowning, culminating, excellent, extreme, final, first, foremost, head, highest, incomparable, last, leading, marvelous, matchless, maximum, paramount, peerless, perfect, predominant, preeminent, prevailing, prime, sovereign, superb, superlative, surpassing, terminal, top, top-drawer, towering, transcendent, ultimate, unequaled, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed, utmost |
| Antonyms: | inferior, least, littlest, lowly, minor, poor, serving |
| Main Entry: | terminal |
| 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: | terminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stop, finish |
| Synonyms: | abolish, abort, achieve, adjourn, annul, bounce, bound, bring to an end, cancel, cease, close, come to an end, complete, conclude, confine, cut off, define, desist, determine, discharge, discontinue, dismiss, dissolve, drop, eliminate, end, expire, extinguish, fire, halt, issue, lapse, limit, perfect, prorogate, prorogue, put an end to, recess, restrict, result, run out, sack, scratch, scrub, tether, ultimate, wind down, wind up, wrap up, wrap* |
| Antonyms: | begin, initiate, open, start |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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