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centremost

centremost is the superlative form of central.

Meaning of central

Adjective

central (comparative more central, superlative most central or centralmost or (UK) centremost or (US) centermost)

  1. Being in the centre.
    • Egyption Thebes; / Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves; / Palmyra, central in the Desert, fell; / And the Arts died by which they had been raised.1814, William Wordsworth, “The Parsonage”, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, volume V, London: Longman, published 1827, page 340
  2. Having or containing the centre of something.
  3. Being very important, or key to something.
    • Cleverley was a central figure as England took the lead inside three minutes. He saw his shot handled by Moldovan defender Simion Bulgaru and Lampard drilled home the penalty in trademark fashion.2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport
    Synonyms:
    dominant, main, principal
  4. Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
  5. Of an element of an algebraic structure: which commutes with all other elements under multiplication
  6. Of a unital algebra over a field: whose center is exactly equal to the image of the base field

See all 14 meanings of central

Antonyms of centremost

Origin of centremost

From centre + -most.

Questions about centremost

What is centremost the superlative form of?
Centremost is the superlative form of central.

Words near centremost in the dictionary

  1. Centrelink time
  2. Centrella
  3. Centrellas
  4. centreman
  5. centremen
  6. centremost
  7. centrencephalic
  8. centrepiece
  9. centrepieces
  10. centrepin
  11. centrepins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: centremost (page history and authors); central (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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