topmost

See also: top-most

English

Alternative forms

• top-most

Etymology

From top +‎ -most.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɒpˈməʊst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɑpˈmoʊst/

Adjective

topmost (comparative more topmost, superlative most topmost)

1. At or nearest to the top; uppermost; being the very highest.
   • 1768, Mr. Yorick, A Sentimental Journey‎^[1], page 114:

     Well! well! ^[sic] cried I, as the coachman turn’d in at the gates, I find I shall do very well : and by the time he had wheel’d round the court, and brought me up to the door, I found myself so much the better for my own lecture, that I neither ascended the steps like a victim to justice, who was to part with life upon the topmost, nor did I mount them with a skip and a couple of strides, as I do when I fly up, Eliza! to thee, to meet it.

   • 1798, Thomas James Mathias, A Translation of the passages from Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Writers, quoted in the Prefaces and Notes to the Pursuits of Literature; A poem, in Four Dialogues‎^[2], London T. Becket, page IX (60):

     When he has defended THE TRIPLE FORTRESS of Religion, Morality, and Literature, from it's^[sic] foundation to the topmost battlements, must he be left on the field without the common honours of a common soldier?

   • 1800, William Hurrell Mallock, The New Republic: Or, Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House‎^[3], London Chatto and Windus, page 220:

     Does it narrow our notions of life's wonder and dignity to peer into the abyss of being, and learn something of the marvellous laws of things — to discover the same mysterious Something in a snow-flake, in the scent of a rose, in the topmost star of unascended heaven," and in some prayer or aspiration in the soul of man?

   • 2015, Seth Giolle, The Cane Stories‎^[4]:

     While he worked to ply fingers back apart more than not, Kaiselan practised his crouch exploring the outpost's more topmost levels.

Antonyms

• bottom-most, bottommost

Translations

at or nearest to the top

• Bulgarian: най-горен (naj-goren), най-висок (naj-visok)
• Czech: nejvyšší (cs)
• Esperanto: plejsupra
• Finnish: päällimmäinen (fi), ylimmäinen (fi), korkein (fi)
• German: oberst
• Polish: najwyższy (pl)
• Russian: са́мый ве́рхний (sámyj vérxnij), наивы́сший (ru) (naivýsšij) (often figurative), вы́сший (ru) (výsšij) (often figurative)
• Slovak: najvrchnejší, najvyšší
• Swedish: övre (sv)

See also

• leftmost, rightmost

Further reading

• “topmost”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “topmost”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “topmost”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “topmost”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “topmost” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• “topmost”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.