utmost

Adjective

• (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order
  • had traveled to the farthest frontier
    
  • don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree
    
  • explored the furthest reaches of space
    
  • the utmost tip of the peninsula
    

• highest in extent or degree
  • to the last measure of human endurance
    
  • whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually
    

• of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
  • extreme cold
    
  • extreme caution
    
  • extreme pleasure
    
  • utmost contempt
    
  • to the utmost degree
    
  • in the uttermost distress
    

Noun

• the greatest possible degree
  • he tried his utmost
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  farthermost , farthest , furthermost , furthest , uttermost , last , extreme , utmost(a) , uttermost(a) , maximum , level best