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topmost

  • /tɒpˈməʊst/ UK
  • /tɑpˈmoʊst/ US

adjective top-most

  1. not comparable At or nearest to the top; uppermost; being the very highest. 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

    Opposite: bottom-most

  2. figuratively, not comparable Of greatest status, esteem, or prestige; best. If Aeschylus’ art at its topmost excellence is to be seen only in the trilogy of indissolubly connected parts, it is not true, as is sometimes maintained, that his art is to be judged exclusively on the basis of the three-part drama.

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adj at or nearest to the top

Deutschoberst
Русскийса́мый ве́рхний sámyj vérxnij, наивы́сший naivýsšij, вы́сший výsšij

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@misc{topmost_2026,
  title = {topmost},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/topmost},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}