ultimately
UK /ˈʌl.tɪ.mɪt.lɪ/ · US /ˈʌl.tɪ.mɪt.li/ adverb
- adverb Indicating the last item. “Firstly,… Secondly,… Ultimately,…”
- adverb Indicating the most important action. “Ultimately, he will have to make a decision before the end of the week.”
- adverb In the end; finally.
- adverb (linguistics) Used to indicate the etymon at which a given etymological derivation terminates. “Cognate to Gottscheerish boßər, bàsser. Ultimately cognate to standard High German Wasser.”
Synonyms
at last finally in the end at length endly last lastly at the end of the day when all is said and done at bottom at heart au fond basically by definition deep down essentially fundamentally in effect in essence in the final analysis at long last
Etymology
From ultimate + -ly.
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ultimately”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details