final
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪnl̩/
enpr: fī'nəl
ipa: /ˈfaɪn(ə)l/
ipa: [-nəɫ]
rhymes: -aɪnəl
Forms: form: more final
form: most final
form: finall
Etymology: From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”).
Senses: examples: text: final solution; the final day of a school term
text: Yet despair not of his final pardon.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: Last; ultimate.
examples: text: a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue
glosses: Conclusive; decisive.
glosses: Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
examples: text: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Word-final; occurring at the end of a word.
Synonyms: sense: last, ultimate
word: dernier
sense: last, ultimate
word: endly
sense: last, ultimate
word: terminal
word: extreme
word: final
word: conclusive
word: decisive
word: definitive
word: endsome
word: hindermost
word: hindmost
word: last
word: ultimate
Hypernyms: word: late
Hyponyms: word: crowning
Derived terms: word: and that's final
word: causal-final
word: China's final warning
word: cofinal
word: equifinal
word: fall at the final hurdle
word: final A
word: final account
word: final act
word: final and conclusive
word: final approach
word: final B
word: final boss
word: final class
word: final club
word: final curtain
word: final cut
word: final decree
word: final drive
word: final frontier
word: final girl
word: final illness
word: finalise
word: finalism
word: finality
word: final method
word: final nail in the coffin
word: final obstruent devoicing
word: final order cutoff
word: final paper
word: final parsec problem
word: final point
word: final reckoning
word: final roundup
word: final salary
word: final say
word: final setting time
word: final sigma
word: final solution
word: Final Solution
word: final stand
word: final straw
word: final topology
word: final whistle
word: final words
word: final year project
word: in the final analysis
word: nonfinal
word: non-final
word: octafinal
word: octavofinal
word: octofinal
word: postfinal
word: prefinal
word: pseudofinal
word: unfinal
word: wordfinal
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun final
word: A final
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun final
word: B final
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun final
word: big final
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun final
word: final cause
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun final
word: finalist
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun final
word: finally
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun final
word: grand final
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun final
word: quarterfinal
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun final
word: semifinal
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun final
word: small final
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun final
word: superfinal
Related terms: word: end
word: finish