Pronunciation 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.
- 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, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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.
- 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.
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
- Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
- an ultimate constituent of matter
- (w.r.t. causes) initial, original
- (most extreme) original, derivative
- French: dernier
- German: (please verify) letzter (de), ultimativ
- Italian: ultimo, ultima
- Portuguese: último, última
- Russian: после́дний
- Spanish: último, final
- Italian: definitivo, definitiva, conclusivo, conclusiva, ultimativo, ultimativa, finale
- Russian: коне́чный
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
- (uncountable) A non-contact competitive team sport played with a 175 gram flying disc, the object of which is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone.
- pedialite Ultimate (sport)
ultimate (ultimates, present participle ultimating; past and past participle ultimated)
- (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.
- 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine (volume 41, page 36)
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