Maximal Meaning
/ˈmæksɪməl/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjLargest, greatest (in magnitude), highest, most.
adjLarger than any previous term in the sequence.
Sentence Examples
The company aims for maximal profits.
She achieved maximal results in her workout.
We need to exert maximal effort to win the game.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The patient received a ____ dose of the medicine to fight the infection.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The trainer pushed the athlete to achieve ____ performance during the final round of the competition.
Word Origin & History
From maximum + -al.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The organification of iodide in the thyroid gland was described using a second order rate constant (KthybindC, /nmol/L*hr/kg thyroid weight) fitted to provide thyroidal iodide stores near the maximal value, which increased with age."
— 2016 March 2, “Dietary Iodine Sufficiency and Moderate Insufficiency in the Lactating Mother and Nursing Infant: A Computational Perspective”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
"In the dependency graphs above, we can see that the maximal number of incomplete dependencies in each structure is five, while processing the most embedded noun[…]."
— 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Locality in Language Processing” (chapter 4), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 120:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The patient received a ____ dose of the medicine to fight the infection.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The trainer pushed the athlete to achieve ____ performance during the final round of the competition.