{UAH} utmost- WORD OF THE DAY December 26, 2018

WORD OF THE DAY December 26, 2018

utmost    adjective | UT-mohst     Definition   1 : situated at the farthest or most distant point : extreme   2 : of the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or amount   Scroll down for more about utmost      TRENDING NOW: nebulous synergy slumgullion endgame SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   From 'Syllabub' to 'Sundae': A Dessert Course in 7 Words       'Cherpumple': 3 Words Packed Into 1     The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 12/21/18       Just What Does That 'Ae' Say?         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Naughty or Nice Quiz   He's making a quiz, and checking it twice...     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   Utmost traces back to the Old English ūtmest, a superlative adjective formed from the adverb ūt, meaning "out." Ūtmest eventually evolved into utmost,perhaps influenced by the spelling of the word most. Not surprisingly, the earlier sense of utmost carries the same meaning as outermost. The second sense of utmost, meaning "of the greatest or highest degree," first appeared in English in the 14th century. A related word is utter, meaning "absolute" or "total," as in the phrase "utter chaos"; it comes from Old English utera, meaning "outer," and ultimately from ūt.     Examples of UTMOST   "The refuge, which is bordered by the Centennial Mountains and Continental Divide to the south and the Gravelly Mountains to the north, is also home to the utmost point of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers." — Kelley Christensen, The Montana Standard, 25 Nov. 2013   "The Richmond football team is one of eight 4AA squads with a bye this week, but head coach Bryan Till is still preaching … that keeping a sense of urgency is of the utmost importance." — Leon Hargrove Jr., The Richmond County (North Carolina) Daily Journal, 15 Nov. 2018   Name That Synonym   Fill in the blanks to complete a synonym of utmost: _ l _ i _ a _ e.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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