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Utmost vs Utmostly - What's the difference?

utmost | utmostly |

As an adjective utmost

is situated at the most distant limit; farthest.

As a noun utmost

is maximum; greatest possible amount or quantity.

As an adverb utmostly is

to the utmost.

utmost

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Situated at the most distant limit; farthest
  • * Evelyn
    • We coasted within two leagues of Antibes, which is the utmost town in France.
  • * Herbert
    • Betwixt two thieves I spend my utmost breath.
  • The most extreme; ultimate; greatest
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • He shall answerto his utmost peril.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost . She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • Indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.

    Related terms

    * outermost * outmost * uttermost

    Noun

    (-)
  • Maximum; greatest possible amount or quantity.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost . She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}

    utmostly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • To the utmost.
  • * {{quote-book, 1920, , Hearts of Three, page=23, edition=2003 Kessinger ed., isbn=0766162931 citation
    • , passage="Better be very careful and utmostly cautious, sir," the negro warned him. }}
  • * {{quote-book, 1953, , Foundations Of The World Republic, page=174 citation
    • , passage=The operation, however, by which the utmostly unfair deal entailed by utmost legality is nullified, cannot be successful at a lesser price than the infliction of an unfair deal on standard legality
  • * {{quote-book, 1961, , Stranger in a Strange Land, page=113 citation
    • , passage=Mike seemed about to weep. "Jubal, I am utmostly sorry."}}

    Synonyms

    * (to the utmost) entirely, absolutely, utterly; profoundly, extremely, exceedingly, most