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say it: FAHY-nuhl
final is an adjective and noun meaning "occurring at or forming an end or termination". It is pronounced /ˈfaɪnəl/ — FAHY-nuhl. It carries 5 recorded senses.
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”
conclusive in a process or progression
“the final answer”
“a last resort”
“the net result”
not to be altered or undone
“the judge's decision is final”
“the arbiter will have the last say”
the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament
an examination administered at the end of an academic term
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for final come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.