From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
ultimate
adj 1: 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" [ant: proximate]
2: 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"
3: 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"
[syn: elemental]