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| Main Entry: | terminal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | final, deadly |
| Synonyms: | check out*, eventual, extreme, fatal, hindmost, incurable, killing, lag, last, latest, latter, lethal, mortal, period, ultimate, utmost, bounding, closing, concluding, limiting, on way out |
| Notes: | a terminus is simply the end or conclusion of something, but a terminal is a structure or installation erected at a terminus |
| Antonyms: | beginning, initial, opening, starting, reviving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | terminal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of road; limit |
| Synonyms: | boundary, depot, end, extremity, station, termination, end of the line, terminus |
| Main Entry: | terminal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computer screen, computer input/output device |
| Synonyms: | cathode ray tube, display, monitor, screen, CRT, VDT, input device, video display |
| Main Entry: | boundary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outer limit |
| Synonyms: | ambit, barrier, beginning, border, borderline, brink, circumference, compass, confines, edge, end, environs, extent, extremity, frame, fringe, frontier, hem, horizon, line, march, margin, mark, mere, mete, outline, outpost, pale, perimeter, periphery, precinct, radius, rim, side, skirt, terminal, termination, verge, abuttals, borderland, bounds, circumscription, limits, line of demarcation, purlieus, terminus |
| Antonyms: | inside, interior, minimum |
| Main Entry: | definitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | authoritative |
| Synonyms: | absolute, actual, categorical, clear-cut, complete, conclusive, decisive, definite, determining, downright*, ending, exhaustive, express, final, flat out*, last, perfect, plain, precise, real, reliable, specific, terminal, ultimate, unambiguous, closing, completing, concluding, finishing, limiting, nailed down, settling, straight out, terminating |
| Antonyms: | incomplete, inconclusive, inexact, interim, temporary, unreliable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | storage place; station |
| Synonyms: | annex, armory, base, depository, destination, garage, haven, junction, loft, lot, magazine, office, repository, store, storehouse, storeroom, terminal, waiting room, warehouse, yard, halting-place, stopping-place, terminus |
| Main Entry: | destination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal; place one wants to go |
| Synonyms: | aim, ambition, design, end, harbor, haven, intention, journey's end, landing-place, object, objective, purpose, resting-place, station, stop, target, terminal, terminus |
| Antonyms: | beginning, source, start |
| Main Entry: | eventual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | future, concluding |
| Synonyms: | conditional, consequent, contingent, dependent, ending, ensuing, final, hindmost, indirect, inevitable, last, later, latter, overall, possible, prospective, secondary, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, vicarious, closing, down the pike, down the road, endmost, in the cards, resulting, succeeding |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | incurable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfixable, unchangeable |
| Synonyms: | deadly, fatal, hopeless, impossible, irreparable, serious, terminal, cureless, immedicable, inoperable, irrecoverable, irremediable, nowhere to go, out of time, remediless, uncorrectable, unrecoverable |
| Antonyms: | curable, operable, healable, medicable |
| Main Entry: | last |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | final; newest |
| Synonyms: | antipodal, bitter end, conclusive, crowning, curtains*, definitive, end, ending, eventual, extreme, far, farthest, furthest, hindmost, lag, latest, least, lowest, once and for all*, outermost, supreme, swan song*, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, utmost, uttermost, aftermost, at the end, climactic, closing, concluding, determinate, determinative, endwise, far-off, finishing, meanest, most recent, rearmost, remotest |
| Antonyms: | beginning, first, front, initial, introductory, oldest, primary, starting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | latter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | latest, concluding |
| Synonyms: | eventual, final, following, hindmost, lag, last, later, modern, recent, second, terminal, closing, last-mentioned, rearmost |
| Antonyms: | earliest, former, preceding |
| Main Entry: | supreme |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greatest, principal |
| Synonyms: | absolute, best, cardinal, chief, crowning, excellent, extreme, final, first, foremost, head, highest, incomparable, last, leading, marvelous, matchless, maximum, paramount, peerless, perfect, predominant, preeminent, prevailing, prime, sovereign, superb, superlative, terminal, top, top-drawer, towering, transcendent, ultimate, unequaled, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, utmost, closing, culminating, surpassing, unsurpassable |
| Antonyms: | inferior, least, lowly, minor, poor, serving, littlest |
| Main Entry: | valedictory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | farewell |
| Synonyms: | final, goodbye, last, parting, terminal, departing |
| Antonyms: | welcoming |
| Main Entry: | junction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection |
| Synonyms: | alliance, annexation, articulation, assemblage, attachment, bond, coalition, coherence, combination, combine, concatenation, concourse, confluence, consolidation, convergence, crossing, crossroads, dovetail, elbow, gathering, gore, hinge, intersection, joint, juncture, knee, link, linking, meeting, node, pivot, reunion, seam, splice, terminal, union, weld, collocation, concursion, conjugation, coupling, hookup, interface, joining, miter, mortise, plug-in, tie-in, tie-up |
| Main Entry: | storehouse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depository |
| Synonyms: | archive, armory, arsenal, barn, cache, depot, granary, magazine, repertory, repository, store, terminal, vault, warehouse, corncrib, cornhouse, grain elevator, silo, storage place |
| Main Entry: | end |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme, limit |
| Synonyms: | borderline, bound, boundary, confine, cusp, deadline, edge, extent, extremity, foot, head, heel, limitation, point, prong, spire, stub, stump, tail, term, terminal, termination, tip, top, ultimate, butt end, neb, nib, tail end, terminus |
| Antonyms: | beginning, cause, foundation, origin |
| Main Entry: | extremity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ultimate; limit |
| Synonyms: | acme, acuteness, adversity, apex, apogee, border, bound, boundary, brim, brink, butt, climax, consummation, crisis, depth, dire straits, disaster, edge, end, excess, extreme, frontier, height, last, margin, maximum, nadir, outside, pinnacle, plight, pole, remote, rim, setback, terminal, termination, tip, top, trouble, verge, vertex, zenith, extremes, terminus |
| Main Entry: | fatal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly, lethal |
| Synonyms: | baleful, baneful, calamitous, deathly, destructive, disastrous, fateful, final, ill-fated, incurable, inevitable, killing, malignant, mortal, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, poisonous, ruinous, terminal, virulent, cataclysmic, catastrophic, ill-starred, malefic, mortiferous, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | healthful, nourishing, vital, wholesome, life-giving |
| Main Entry: | final |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ending, last |
| Synonyms: | crowning, end, eventual, hindmost, lag, latest, latter, supreme, terminal, ultimate, closing, concluding, finishing, last-minute, terminating |
| Antonyms: | beginning, first, opening, starting, commencing |
| Main Entry: | junction/juncture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | link, connection |
| Synonyms: | alliance, annexation, articulation, assemblage, attachment, bond, coalition, coherence, combination, combine, concatenation, concourse, confluence, consolidation, convergence, crossing, crossroads, dovetail, elbow, gathering, gore, hinge, intersection, joint, knee, linking, meeting, node, pivot, reunion, seam, splice, terminal, union, weld, collocation, concursion, conjugation, coupling, hookup, interface, joining, miter, mortise, plug-in, tie-in, tie-up |
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