final
/'fainl/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Conclusive and not subject to change: Describes a decision, answer, or state that is definitive and cannot be altered or appealed.
- Occurring at the end: Describes something that comes last in a sequence, process, or series of events.
Noun:
- A decisive last match or game: The last contest in a tournament or series, which decides the ultimate winner.
- A final examination: An important test taken at the end of an academic term or course.
Examples
Adjective:
- The judge's ruling is final. (The decision cannot be changed.)
- This is my final offer. (This is my last and definitive offer.)
- We are in the final stages of the project. (We are in the last phases of the project.)
Noun:
- Our team has reached the final. (Our team has qualified for the last, championship match.)
- I have to study for my history final. (I need to prepare for my end-of-term history exam.)
Advanced Usage
- "Final say": The ultimate authority to make a decision.
- The editor-in-chief has the final say on all published articles.
- "Final nail in the coffin": An event that causes the definite failure or end of something.
- The lost contract was the final nail in the coffin for the struggling company.
- "In the final analysis": When everything has been considered; ultimately.
- In the final analysis, the success of the mission depended on teamwork.
Variants and Related Words
- Finale (n): The last part of a piece of music or a public performance.
- The concert ended with a spectacular finale.
- Finalize (v): To complete the last part of a plan or agreement.
- We will finalize the contract details tomorrow.
- Finally (adv): After a long time or delay; at last.
- She finally arrived at the station.
- Finality (n): The quality of being final and irreversible.
- There was a sense of finality in his goodbye.
Synonyms
- Adjective: Last, ultimate, conclusive, decisive, terminal.
- Noun: Championship (game), decider, endgame, concluding exam.
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
- "Play the final": To participate in the last match of a competition.
- After a great season, they earned the right to play the final.
Related Idioms
- "The final curtain": The end of an event or period, often used in the context of a career or life.
- The actor took his bow as the final curtain fell on his illustrious career.
- "Final straw" (or "the last straw"): The last in a series of unpleasant events that makes a situation unbearable.
- When he was late for the third time, it was the final straw.
Adjective
- not to be altered or undone
- the judge's decision is final
- the arbiter will have the last say
- conclusive in a process or progression
- the final answer
- a last resort
- the net result
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- his concluding words came as a surprise
- the final chapter
- the last days of the dinosaurs
- terminal leave
Noun
- an examination administered at the end of an academic term
- the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament