English Online Dictionary. What means ultimate? What does ultimate mean?
English
Etymology
- From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), past participle of Latin ultimō, ultimāre (“to come to an end”), from ultimus (“last, final”). See ultra-.
- (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈʌltɪmɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈʌltəmɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Adjective
ultimate (not comparable)
- Final; last in a series.
- (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- That will happen at some time; eventual.
- Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection
- Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
Synonyms
- (final): See Thesaurus:final
- (most extreme): utmost, uttermost
Antonyms
- (w.r.t. causes): initial, original
- (most extreme): original, derivative
Coordinate terms
- (adjectives denoting syllables): penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
ultimate (countable and uncountable, 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
- (uncountable, sports) Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee/ultimate disc.
Translations
Verb
ultimate (third-person singular simple present ultimates, present participle ultimating, simple past and past participle ultimated)
- (transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.
Further reading
- “ultimate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “ultimate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
- mutilate
Finnish
Etymology
From English ultimate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈultimɑte/, [ˈul̪t̪iˌmɑ̝t̪e̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑte
- Syllabification(key): ul‧ti‧ma‧te
Noun
ultimate
- ultimate frisbee (game)
Declension
Synonyms
- liitokiekkoilu
Anagrams
- amuletit, amuletti, laitumet, leimattu, leimatut
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
ultimate
- inflection of ultimare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
ultimate f pl
- feminine plural of ultimato
Anagrams
- multiate, mutilate
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ul.tiˈmaː.te/, [ʊɫ̪t̪ɪˈmäːt̪ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ul.tiˈma.te/, [ul̪t̪iˈmäːt̪e]
Verb
ultimāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of ultimō
Spanish
Verb
ultimate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of ultimar combined with te