ultimate
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Medieval Latin ultimatus (“furthest, last”), past participle of Latin ultimare (“to come to an end”), from ultimus (“last, final”); see ultra-.
Adjective [edit]
ultimate (not comparable)
- Concerning the last or final thing in a series.
- (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- the ultimate pleasure
- the ultimate disappointment
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- That will happen sometime; eventual.
Antonyms [edit]
- (w.r.t. causes): proximate
Derived terms [edit]
Coordinate terms [edit]
- (adjectives denoting syllables): penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
last or final in a series
last in a word or other utterance
greatest or maximum
most distant
eventual
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Noun [edit]
ultimate (plural ultimates)
- The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
- The final or most distant point; the conclusion
- The greatest extremity; the maximum
External links [edit]
- ultimate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ultimate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Verb [edit]
ultimate
- second-person plural present indicative of ultimare
- second-person plural imperative of ultimare
- Feminine plural of ultimato