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GREATEST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does greatest mean?
• GREATEST (adjective)
The adjective GREATEST has 1 sense:
1. highest in quality
Familiarity information: GREATEST used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Highest in quality
Synonyms:
greatest; sterling; superlative
Similar:
superior (of high or superior quality or performance)
Context examples
Upon my representation of what you were suffering, he immediately, and with the greatest delicacy, ceased to urge to see you for the present.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
On the contrary, answered the Colonel, warmly, I consider it the greatest privilege to have been permitted to study your methods of working.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her greatest deficiency was in the pencil—she had no notion of drawing—not enough even to attempt a sketch of her lover's profile, that she might be detected in the design.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The factor that appears to have the greatest effect is muscle mass.
(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)
A 0-3 grade scale is used, where grade 0 represents category performed without any difficulty and grade 3 represents category performed with the greatest difficulty (unable to do).
(Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
Area of greatest concentration, attention, or activity; a central point or locus, especially of an infection.
(Focus, NCI Thesaurus)
"The greatest time of my life. You see, I ain't used to things. . . "
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A decrease of the greatest rate of flow that can be achieved during forced expiration beginning with the lungs fully inflated.
(Decreased Peak Expiratory Flowrate, Food and Drug Administration)
This agent's cytotoxicity is maximal during the S phase of the cell cycle when topoisomerase levels are greatest.
(Amsacrine, NCI Thesaurus)
A prize indeed would Kellynch Hall be to him; rather the greatest prize of all, let him have taken ever so many before; hey, Shepherd?
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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