Last definition

Last as an adjective

1. immediately past

   "last Thursday"

2. coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining

   "the last time I saw Paris"

3. occurring at or forming an end or termination

   "the last days of the dinosaurs"

   Same sense: final, terminal, concluding

4. most unlikely or unsuitable

   "the last person we would have suspected"

5. occurring at the time of death

   "his last words"

6. conclusive in a process or progression

   "a last resort"

   Same sense: final, net

7. highest in extent or degree

   "to the last measure of human endurance"

8. not to be altered or undone

   "the arbiter will have the last say"

   Same sense: final

9. lowest in rank or importance

   "last prize"

   Same sense: last-place, lowest

Last as a noun

10. the temporal end; the concluding time

    Same sense: close, finish, conclusion, stopping point, finale, finis

11. the last or lowest in an ordering or series

    "he was the last to leave"

12. a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do

    "he breathed his last"

13. the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

    "a struggle to the last"

    Same sense: death

14. a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds

15. a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels

16. the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence

    "I had to miss the last of the movie"

    Same sense: end

17. holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes

Last as an adverb

18. most recently

    "I saw him last in London"

19. the item at the end

    "last, I'll discuss family values"

    Same sense: finally, in conclusion, lastly

Last as a verb

20. persist for a specified period of time

    "The bad weather lasted for three days"

    Same sense: endure

21. continue to live and avoid dying

    "how long can a person last without food and water?"

    Same sense: go, live, live on, hold out, hold up, survive, endure

Synonyms and antonyms

• final definition
• terminal
• concluding
• net
• last-place
• lowest
• close definition
• finish
• conclusion
• stopping point
• finale
• finis
• death definition
• end definition
• finally definition
• in conclusion
• lastly
• endure
• go definition
• live definition
• live on
• hold out
• hold up
• survive

Opposite: first.

All synonyms of last, sense by sense

How to say last

Last has 1 syllable and rhymes with past. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with last

• past
• fast
• passed
• cast
• vast
• broadcast
• blast
• forecast
• surpassed
• caste
• harassed
• mast

All 49 words that rhyme with last

LAST in word games

Scrabble

4

Words With Friends

5

Anagrams

4

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