UPPERMOST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uppermost mean? 

• UPPERMOST (adjective)
  The adjective UPPERMOST has 1 sense:

1. at or nearest to the top

  Familiarity information: UPPERMOST used as an adjective is very rare.

• UPPERMOST (adverb)
  The adverb UPPERMOST has 2 senses:

1. in or into the most prominent position, as in the mind

2. in or into the highest position

  Familiarity information: UPPERMOST used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPPERMOST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At or nearest to the top

Synonyms:

topmost; upmost; uppermost

Context example:

on the topmost step

Similar:

top (situated at the top or highest position)

• UPPERMOST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In or into the most prominent position, as in the mind

Context example:

say what comes uppermost

Sense 2

Meaning:

In or into the highest position

Context example:

the blade turned uppermost

 Context examples 

On the desk, among the neat array of papers, a large envelope was uppermost, and bore, in the doctor’s hand, the name of Mr. Utterson.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

God help me!—all that is worst in me seemed to come uppermost.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Taking the forms, he carried them over to the window and carefully examined that which was uppermost.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had four steps, and a stone to cross over when you came to the uppermost.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Elinor tried to talk of something else; but Miss Steele could not be kept beyond a couple of minutes, from what was uppermost in her mind.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It would be impossible to say what Emma felt, on hearing this—which of all her unpleasant sensations was uppermost.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Researchers used the GRaND instrument to determine the concentrations of hydrogen, iron and potassium in the uppermost yard (or meter) of Ceres.

(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)

The researchers estimate that more than half of the total groundwater in the uppermost one kilometre of the Earth’s crust is fossil groundwater.

(Modern pollutants can reach deep fossil aquifers, SciDev.Net)

As for the captain, he had carried his over his shoulder by a bandoleer, and like a wise man, lock uppermost.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The wish of a numerous acquaintance in Bath was still uppermost with Mrs. Allen, and she repeated it after every fresh proof, which every morning brought, of her knowing nobody at all.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)