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[ adverb ] as the end result of a succession or process
Synonyms Examples "ultimately he had to give in" "at long last the winter was over" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)In the work of every artist , I suppose , there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive , ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; not less strikingly so for being mysterious , as though some deeply hidden constatation of thoughts were enciphered in a single image , a single moment . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Moreover , it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato 's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods , wives , and children , was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; and it is to this problem that the Republic ultimately returns . (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)The action centers about a group of outspoken and offbeat students sitting around a table in a cafeteria and their collective and ultimately fruitless search for a cup of hot coffee . |
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[ adverb ] after everything has been considered
Examples "in the final analysis, we are quite well off" Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes , the startled horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are_born at the end of an ancestral line long_since divorced from money-making and which , besides , has kept its estate intact . |
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