uppermost
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English upper-moste; equivalent to upper + -most.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
uppermost (not comparable)
- At or nearest the top of something.
- 2005, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Tax reform: hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, June 8, 2005, Volume 36, Issues 109-123[1]:
- Well, to me, if you are restricting it to economic policy — because I can surely think of some noneconomic policy concerns that are more uppermost in my mind.
- 2015, Lawrence A. Pervin, Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology[2]:
- As a result, it is not always an easy matter to evaluate, as an outsider, the effectiveness of a life-task strategy (i.e., sometimes the objective indicators of success and failure do not coincide with the goals most uppermost in a person's mind).
- Highest in rank, importance, etc.
- 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 735:
- For him, as for his colleagues, concern with priestly comportment and purity is uppermost.
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Translations[edit]
at or nearest the top
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Adjective[edit]
uppermost
- (rare) superlative form of upper: most upper
Adverb[edit]
uppermost (not comparable)
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