Definition of Utmost

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Utmost

Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme; as, the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowledge.

Being in the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or the like; greatest; as, the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness.

The most that can be; the farthest limit; the greatest power, degree, or effort; as, he has done his utmost; try your utmost.

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Utmost Quotations

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Winston Churchill

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
Joseph Addison

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
Ralph Ellison

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold

Utmost Translations

utmost in Spanish is sumo
utmost in Swedish is ytterst

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