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Ultimate
Definitions
- 1 Final; last in a series. not-comparable
"[…] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]"
- 2 Last in a word or other utterance. not-comparable
- 3 Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
"the ultimate pleasure"
- 4 Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- 5 That will happen at some time; eventual. not-comparable
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- 6 Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final. not-comparable
"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. not-comparable
"an ultimate constituent of matter"
- 1 being the last or concluding element of a series wordnet
- 2 furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme wordnet
- 1 The most basic or fundamental of a set of things countable, uncountable
- 2 the finest or most superior quality of its kind wordnet
- 3 The final or most distant point; the conclusion countable, uncountable
- 4 The greatest extremity; the maximum countable, uncountable
- 5 Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee or ultimate disc. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
- 1 To finish; to complete. archaic, transitive
"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."
Etymology
* From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), perfect passive participle of ultimō (“to come to an end”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from ultimus (“last, final”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See ultra-. * (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.
* From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), perfect passive participle of ultimō (“to come to an end”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from ultimus (“last, final”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See ultra-. * (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.
* From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), perfect passive participle of ultimō (“to come to an end”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from ultimus (“last, final”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See ultra-. * (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.
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