• From Medieval Latin ultimātus, past participle of Latin ultimo, from ultimus.
• (ultimate frisbee) The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.

• (British) IPA: /ˈʌltɪmɪt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈʌltəmɪt/

ultimate (not comparable)

1. Final; last in a series.
2. (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
3. Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.

   the ultimate pleasure

   the ultimate disappointment

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, 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.

4. Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
5. That will happen at some time; eventual.
6. 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

7. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

   an ultimate constituent of matter

• (final) See Thesaurus:final
• (most extreme) utmost, uttermost

• (antonym(s) of “w.r.t. causes”): initial, original
• (antonym(s) of “most extreme”): original, derivative

• ulterior
• ultimatum
• ultra
• ultra-

• French: dernier
• German: letzter, ultimativ
• Italian: ultimo, ultima
• Portuguese: último, última
• Russian: после́дний
• Spanish: último, final

• German: ultimativ
• Italian: estremo, estrema
• Russian: наибо́льший
• Spanish: máximo, extremo, mayor

• German: äußerster
• Russian: наидальнейший
• Spanish: último

• Italian: definitivo, definitiva, conclusivo, conclusiva, ultimativo, ultimativa, finale
• Russian: коне́чный

ultimate

1. The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
2. The final or most distant point; the conclusion
3. The greatest extremity; the maximum
4. (uncountable, sports) Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee/ultimate disc

ultimate (ultimates, present participle ultimating; simple past and past participle ultimated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.
   • 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine, volume 41, page 36:

     These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.