Meaning of utmost | Babel Free

Definitions

1. High.
2. maximum
3. The greatest possible capability, extent, or quantity; maximum.
   countable, uncountable
4. Fighter of this martial art.
5. greatest

Equivalents

Examples

“at the utmost    to the utmost”

“[...] I am reſolved to pluck up the heart of a man, and to try my utmoſt to get from under his hand.”

“[T]he utmoſt they could do, was to perſuade Him to lay aſide all Rancor and Diſcontent againſt thoſe Confederate Lords, and to hearken to their deſires.”

“But Scrooge was all the worse for this. It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black.”

“Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.”

“We drank martinis, while she gazed into my eyes and talked of Dolores – in tones of the utmost loathing – and of you, in tones of the utmost self-importance.”

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