Adjective

(en adjective)

Characterized by speculation; based on guessing or unfounded opinions.

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*:"Don't dare laugh at us!" smiled his sister. "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children cameand the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. Do you like the house?"

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Adjective

(wikipedia ultimate) (-)

Final; last in a series.

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(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.

Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.

the ultimate pleasure

the ultimate disappointment

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Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.

That will happen at some time; eventual.

Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.

* Coleridge

those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict

Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

an ultimate constituent of matter