Utmost
adjective
The largest amount or degree possible; the most extreme.
He tried to solve the math problem with his utmost effort.
Often appears as...
- utmost importance
- utmost respect
noun
The most extreme limit or degree; greatest extent.
The issue is of the utmost importance.
Often appears as...
- do your utmost
- best of one's utmost
adjective
The largest amount or degree possible; the most extreme.
He tried to solve the math problem with his utmost effort.
Often appears as...
- utmost importance
- utmost respect
noun
The most extreme limit or degree; greatest extent.
The issue is of the utmost importance.
Often appears as...
- do your utmost
- best of one's utmost
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emphasizing Effort
Use 'utmost' to stress the intensity of an effort someone makes.
She put her utmost energy into the project.
Pro Tip 2/3Serious Intention
Shows speaker's serious intention to highlight the importance or necessity of something.
Your safety is our utmost priority.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-literal Use
Sometimes used figuratively to mean very high degree, not literally the absolute maximum.
This novel holds the utmost significance for me.
Pro Tip 1/3Emphasizing Effort
Use 'utmost' to stress the intensity of an effort someone makes.
She put her utmost energy into the project.
Pro Tip 2/3Serious Intention
Shows speaker's serious intention to highlight the importance or necessity of something.
Your safety is our utmost priority.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-literal Use
Sometimes used figuratively to mean very high degree, not literally the absolute maximum.
This novel holds the utmost significance for me.
Pro Tip 1/3Emphasizing Effort
Use 'utmost' to stress the intensity of an effort someone makes.
She put her utmost energy into the project.
Pro Tip 2/3Serious Intention
Shows speaker's serious intention to highlight the importance or necessity of something.
Your safety is our utmost priority.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-literal Use
Sometimes used figuratively to mean very high degree, not literally the absolute maximum.
This novel holds the utmost significance for me.
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The rise of modern...
As a result, politics is no longer about seeking compromise and consensus through tolerant democratic institutions. Instead, these leaders seek to overturn what they see as a broken system. This means that where a liberal democracy has the utmost respect for institutions
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Ancient Rome’s most...
Informed by his poor understanding of the circulatory system, Galen was a strong proponent of these treatments, despite their sometimes lethal consequences. Unfortunately, Galen’s ego drove him to believe that all his discoveries were of the utmost importance.
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
breaking up kidney stones, maybe even removing tumors, all of this without opening you up. It sounds like science fiction, but by programming sound waves in order to move objects with utmost precision, this could become a feasible reality.
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Hans Rosling: The good...
to get child mortality down in all of these countries and to get them down in the corner where we all would like to live together. And of course, lowering child mortality is a matter of utmost importance from humanitarian aspects.
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How to talk about weight...
at least as impaired quality of life as kids with cancer it's partly because when you have cancer people treat you with the utmost of respect and love and compassion when you have obesity often people shame you and blame you and
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Why is this painting so...
There is the statue of a soldier present below, but he is unable to defend the woman and child. Instead his broken body lies in pieces, his arm clutching a splintered sword in a signal of utmost defeat.
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Inside the mind of a...
I want to say that their idea of jihad is wrong -- completely wrong -- as was mine, then. Jihad means to strive to one's utmost. It includes exertion and spirituality, self-purification and devotion.
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3 Things Men Can Do to...
with the deepest sincerity and utmost gravity. It is time for a gender reckoning, beginning with men authentically confronting our internal selves and each other through the toxicity within us.
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Mattias Klum: Lions,...
utmost and I go to these places there are what should I say isolator or what could say also like a islands of wealth and beauty undisturbed islands at its
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Elephants Freed From...
sure that she has the utmost best quality of life that she can have and from what I could see and what I feel that's definitely what she's getting here
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The rise of modern...
As a result, politics is no longer about seeking compromise and consensus through tolerant democratic institutions. Instead, these leaders seek to overturn what they see as a broken system. This means that where a liberal democracy has the utmost respect for institutions
Video examples
Ancient Rome’s most...
Informed by his poor understanding of the circulatory system, Galen was a strong proponent of these treatments, despite their sometimes lethal consequences. Unfortunately, Galen’s ego drove him to believe that all his discoveries were of the utmost importance.
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
breaking up kidney stones, maybe even removing tumors, all of this without opening you up. It sounds like science fiction, but by programming sound waves in order to move objects with utmost precision, this could become a feasible reality.
Video examples
Hans Rosling: The good...
to get child mortality down in all of these countries and to get them down in the corner where we all would like to live together. And of course, lowering child mortality is a matter of utmost importance from humanitarian aspects.
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How to talk about weight...
at least as impaired quality of life as kids with cancer it's partly because when you have cancer people treat you with the utmost of respect and love and compassion when you have obesity often people shame you and blame you and
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Why is this painting so...
There is the statue of a soldier present below, but he is unable to defend the woman and child. Instead his broken body lies in pieces, his arm clutching a splintered sword in a signal of utmost defeat.
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Inside the mind of a...
I want to say that their idea of jihad is wrong -- completely wrong -- as was mine, then. Jihad means to strive to one's utmost. It includes exertion and spirituality, self-purification and devotion.
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3 Things Men Can Do to...
with the deepest sincerity and utmost gravity. It is time for a gender reckoning, beginning with men authentically confronting our internal selves and each other through the toxicity within us.
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Mattias Klum: Lions,...
utmost and I go to these places there are what should I say isolator or what could say also like a islands of wealth and beauty undisturbed islands at its
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Elephants Freed From...
sure that she has the utmost best quality of life that she can have and from what I could see and what I feel that's definitely what she's getting here
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I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves in harm's way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country, and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee, so I have the utmost respect for them, and I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way.
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I don't want to just keep playing for the sake of playing. The day I realise I'm not good enough, I'll go. I want to play as long as I can - not just to make up the numbers but to play with utmost passion.
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We have the utmost respect for any team we play, football is a game where there is no right or wrong way of playing.
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Nicolas Cage
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Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?
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Yoel Romero
Cuban Athlete
I give the utmost importance to each opponent; otherwise, I can't move forward.
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Gary Cahill
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I've got the utmost respect for Azpilicueta as a player and a person.
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Benson Henderson
American Mixed Martial Artist
Everybody I step in the cage against I have the utmost respect for.
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Marcus Morris
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I approach this game with the utmost respect for every player.
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Karthik Subbaraj
Indian Director
In a silent film, the visuals are of utmost importance.
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Magic Johnson
American Basketball Player
I respect women to the utmost.
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Colin Kaepernick
American Athlete
I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves in harm's way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country, and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee, so I have the utmost respect for them, and I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way.
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Imran Tahir
Pakistani Athlete
I don't want to just keep playing for the sake of playing. The day I realise I'm not good enough, I'll go. I want to play as long as I can - not just to make up the numbers but to play with utmost passion.
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Kasper Schmeichel
Danish Footballer
We have the utmost respect for any team we play, football is a game where there is no right or wrong way of playing.
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Nicolas Cage
Actor
Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?
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Yoel Romero
Cuban Athlete
I give the utmost importance to each opponent; otherwise, I can't move forward.
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Gary Cahill
English Athlete
I've got the utmost respect for Azpilicueta as a player and a person.
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Benson Henderson
American Mixed Martial Artist
Everybody I step in the cage against I have the utmost respect for.
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Marcus Morris
American Basketball Player
I approach this game with the utmost respect for every player.
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Karthik Subbaraj
Indian Director
In a silent film, the visuals are of utmost importance.
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Magic Johnson
American Basketball Player
I respect women to the utmost.
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