utmost
The greatest or highest amount possible.
utmost in a sentence
- Handle the baby bird with the utmost care: its bones are as thin as matchsticks.
- Try your utmost in the swimming gala, even if the other teams look faster.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to utmost?
- Alowest
- Bgreatest
- Csmallest
- Dleast
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B: greatest. The other three mean the opposite of utmost.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to utmost?
- Ahighest
- Bmost
- Cleast
- Dgreatest
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C: least. The other three mean nearly the same as utmost.
Words that mean something similar
greatest, highest, most
Words that mean the opposite
least, smallest, lowest
More words about size & amount
- utter: Complete and total.
- vast: Extremely large; stretching a very long way.
- voracious: Extremely hungry or eager for a lot of something.
- wholly: Completely and entirely.
- zenith: The highest point that something reaches.
- abundance: A very large amount of something, more than enough.
- abundant: More than enough of something; plenty of it.
- accumulate: To gather more and more of something over time.
More words to explore
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