last
last is a 4-letter English word with 36 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- 3d pers sing pres. of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.
- adjective. Being after all the others, similarly classed or considered, in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final; hindmost; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance.
- adjective. Next before the present; as, I saw him last week.
- adjective. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- adjective. Lowest in rank or degree; as, the last prize.
- adjective. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely; having least fitness; as, he is the last person to be accused of theft.
- adjective. At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in New York.
- adjective. In conclusion; finally.
- adjective. At a time next preceding the present time.
- intransitive verb. To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.
- intransitive verb. To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.
- intransitive verb. A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.
- transitive verb. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.
- noun. A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs.
- noun. The burden of a ship; a cargo.
- noun. a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
"he breathed his last"
- noun. holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
- noun. the concluding parts of an event or occurrence
"the end was exciting"
"I had to miss the last of the movie"
- noun. a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- noun. a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- noun. the last or lowest in an ordering or series
"he was the last to leave"
"he finished an inglorious last"
- noun. the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
"she stayed until his death"
"a struggle to the last"
- noun. the temporal end; the concluding time
"the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"
"the market was up at the finish"
- verb. continue to live through hardship or adversity
"We went without water and food for 3 days"
"These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"
- verb. persist for a specified period of time
"The bad weather lasted for three days"
- adjective. occurring at the time of death
"his last words"
"the last rites"
- adjective. lowest in rank or importance
"last prize"
"in last place"
- adjective. not to be altered or undone
"the judge's decision is final"
"the arbiter will have the last say"
- adjective. occurring at or forming an end or termination
"his concluding words came as a surprise"
"the final chapter"
- adjective. coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
"the last time I saw Paris"
"the last day of the month"
- adjective. highest in extent or degree
"to the last measure of human endurance"
"whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually"
- adjective. most unlikely or unsuitable
"the last person we would have suspected"
"the last man they would have chosen for the job"
- adjective. conclusive in a process or progression
"the final answer"
"a last resort"
- adjective. immediately past
"last Thursday"
"the last chapter we read"
- adverb. most_recently
"I saw him last in London"
- adverb. the item at the end
"last, I'll discuss family values"
Synonyms
end, death, close, conclusion, finale, finis, finish, endure, go, live, survive, lowest, final, concluding, terminal, utmost, net, finally, lastly
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in last:
Common word forms
lasts, lasted, laster, lastly, lasting, lastness
Words from these letters
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