Definition of ultimate

• the finest or most superior quality of its kind; "the ultimate in luxury"
• furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "mans ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "ones ultimate goal in life"
• being the last or concluding element of a series; "the ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"