Word Meanings - DERNIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Last; final. Dernier ressort ( Etym: , last resort or expedient.

Related words: (words related to DERNIER)

• EXPEDIENTIAL
  . Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. -- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv.
• DERNIER
  Last; final. Dernier ressort ( Etym: , last resort or expedient.
• FINAL
  1. Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term. Yet despair not of his final pardon. Milton. 2. Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a
• EXPEDIENTLY
  1. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently. 2. With expedition; quickly.
• RESORT
  Active power or movement; spring. Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon.
• RESORTER
  One who resorts; a frequenter.
• EXPEDIENT
  1. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient
• FINALIST
  Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.
• FINALE
  Close; termination; as: The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition. The last composition performed in any act of an opera. The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.
• FINALLY
  1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered. Whom patience finally must crown. Milton. 2. Completely; beyond recovery. Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed
• FINALITY
  1. The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement. Baxter. 2. The relation of end or purpose to its means. Janet.
• INEXPEDIENT
  Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly
• AFFINAL
  Related by marriage; from the same source.
• UNEXPEDIENT
  Inexpedient.