ultimate

English

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Cardinal:one Ordinal:first Abbreviated ordinal:1st Latinate ordinal:primary Reverse order ordinal:last Latinate reverse order ordinal:ultimate Adverbial:onetime,once Multiplier:onefold Latinate multiplier:single Distributive:singly Germanic collective:onesome Collective of n parts:singlet,singleton Greek or Latinate collective:monad Greek collective prefix:mono- Latinate collective prefix:uni- Fractional:whole Elemental:singlet,singleton Greek prefix:proto- Number of musicians:solo Number of years:year

Etymology

• FromMedieval Latinultimātus(“furthest, last”),past participle ofLatinultimō, ultimāre(“to come to an end”),fromultimus(“last, final”).Seeultra-.
• (ultimate frisbee):The sport was renamed to avoid the use of theFrisbeetrademark.

Pronunciation

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈʌltɪmɪt/,/ˈʌltɪmət/
• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈʌltəmɪt/

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• Rhymes:-ɪt

Adjective

ultimate(comparativemoreultimate,superlativemostultimate)

1. (not comparable)Final;lastin a series.
   • 1677,Robert Plot,“Of the Heavens and Air”, inThe natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England‎^[1],page15:

     […]they [the sounds of an echo] next strike theultimatesecondary object, then thepenultimateandantepenultimate;[…]

2. (not comparable,of a syllable)Last in a word or other utterance.
3. Being thegreatestpossible;maximum;mostextreme.

   theultimatepleasure

   theultimatedisappointment

   • 1813,Henry Ware, Noah Worcester,The Christian Disciple and Theological Review‎^[2],Boston, Cummings and Hilliard, pages227-228:

     Not that we consider this as the most desirable channel in which these affections should be made to flow. The good that is done in this way, is by no means in proportion to the good that is intended. Injudicious charity has probably been productive of far moreultimateevil, than the coldest and most indiscriminating selfishness.

   • 1839,Thomas Bartlett,Memoirs of the Life, Character and Writings of Joseph Butler‎^[3],John W. Parker, page264:

     "But if Berkeley be clear in conveying his doctrine, the matter of the exposition will be found not the less to press upon the powers of the firmest intellect. There are diligent students of modern metaphysical literature, who are little disciplined for the difficulties of disquisition into which a thorough examination of his views would lead them. His characteristic system depends little on mere classification, little on the more obvious results of observation. It rests on a basis of intense self-contemplation, which, to be prosecuted to any purpose, must be prosecuted with extreme perseverance. It questions the conscious being on points the mostultimatein his nature, — points which, though they be but facts of consciousness, we hesitate not to say, there are many minds wholly unable to make the objects of reflection. "

   • 1843,Artizan Club (London, England),The Artizan‎^[4],Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, page106:

     "From the foregoing observations we deduce the interesting fact that acetic acid, hitherto known only as a product of the oxidation of organic materials, can be built up by almost direct synthesis from its elements. Sulphide of carbon, chloride of carbon, and chlorine, are the agents which, along with water, accomplish the transformation of carbon into acetic acid. If we could only transform acetic acid into alcohol, and out of the latier could obtain sugar and starch, then we should be enabled to build up these common vegetable principles, by the so-called artificial method, from their mostultimateelements. "

   • 1867,The North American Review‎^[5],O. Everett, page634:

     Dr. Bucknill declares that the growth and renovation of nerve-cells in the brain "are the mostultimateconditions of mind with which we are accquainted "; but instead of inferring from this that we know very little indeed about the mind, he concludes that thought, recollection, and reason are products of" the activity of the vesicular neurine of the brain. "

   • 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 thatultimate"closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

4. Being the mostdistantorextreme;farthest.
5. (not comparable)That will happen at some time;eventual.
6. (not comparable)Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
   • 1825,S[amuel]T[aylor]Coleridge,Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion:[…],London:[…]Thomas Davison,[…]forTaylorandHessey,[…],→OCLC:

     thoseultimatetruths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict

7. (not comparable)Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

   anultimateconstituent of matter

Synonyms

• (final):SeeThesaurus:final
• (most extreme):utmost,uttermost

Antonyms

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

• antepenultimate
• pay the ultimate price
• penultimate
• super-ultimate
• ultimateness
• ultimate sacrifice
• ultimate tensile strength

Related terms

• ulterior
• ultimatum
• ultra
• ultra-

Translations

final; last in a series

• Bulgarian:после́ден(bg)(posléden),кра́ен(bg)(kráen)
• Dutch:definitief(nl)
• Esperanto:fina
• Finnish:viimeinen(fi)
• French:dernier(fr)
• Galician:último(gl)
• Georgian:საბოლოო(saboloo),უკანასკნელი(uḳanasḳneli)
• German:^{(pleaseverify)}letzter(de),ultimativ(de)
• Greek:τελικός(el)(telikós),έσχατος(el)(éschatos)
• Hungarian:utolsó(hu)
• Indonesian:terakhir(id)
• Irish:deiridh,deireanach
• Italian:ultimo(it)m,ultima(it)f
• Japanese:Chung わりの(ja)(owari no),Tối hậu の(ja)(saigo no)
• Macedonian:по́следенm(pósleden),кра́енm(kráen),за́вршенm(závršen),ко́неченm(kónečen)
• Norwegian:endelig(no)
• Polish:ostatni(pl)m
• Portuguese:último(pt)m,última(pt)f
• Russian:после́дний(ru)(poslédnij),оконча́тельный(ru)(okončátelʹnyj),кра́йний(ru)(krájnij),заверши́тельный(ru)(zaveršítelʹnyj)
• Spanish:último(es),final(es)
• Swedish:ultimat(sv),slutlig(sv),slutgiltig(sv)
• Ukrainian:оста́нній(uk)(ostánnij),остато́чний(ostatóčnyj),кра́йній(krájnij)

last in a word or other utterance

• Bulgarian:после́ден(bg)(posléden)
• Finnish:viimeinen(fi),loppu-
• Hungarian:hátsó(hu),hátulsó(hu),leghátsó,leghátulsó
• Indonesian:ultima(id)

greatest or maximum

• Bulgarian:най‑висш(naj‑visš),най‑голя́м(naj‑goljám),пъ́лен(bg)(pǎ́len),съвърше́н(bg)(sǎvǎršén)
• Esperanto:la plej granda,pleja,maksimuma
• Estonian:ülim
• Finnish:äärimmäinen(fi),korkein(fi)
• Georgian:უკიდურესი(uḳiduresi),მაქსიმალური(maksimaluri)
• German:ultimativ(de)
• Greek:μέγιστος(el)(mégistos),απόλυτος(el)(apólytos)
• Hebrew:אולטימטיבי(ultimatívi)
• Hungarian:végső(hu)
• Indonesian:pamungkas(id),terpungkas(id)
• Irish:is fearr
• Italian:estremo(it)m,estrema(it)f
• Japanese:Cứu cực の(ja)(kyūkyoku no)
• Macedonian:на́јголемm(nájgolem),врвенm(vrven)
• Norwegian:ultimat
• Polish:największym,najwyższy(pl)m
• Portuguese:derradeiro(pt)
• Russian:наибо́льший(ru)(naibólʹšij),наивы́сший(ru)(naivýsšij)
• Spanish:máximo(es),extremo(es),mayor(es),ultimado(es),supremo(es)
• Swedish:slutliga(sv)
• Ukrainian:найбі́льший(uk)(najbílʹšyj),максима́льний(uk)(maksymálʹnyj)

most distant

• Bulgarian:най‑дале́чен(naj‑daléčen),най‑отдалече́н(naj‑otdalečén)
• Finnish:etäisin,kaukaisin
• Georgian:უკიდურესი(uḳiduresi)
• German:äußerster(de)
• Hungarian:legtávolabbi(hu),legkülső
• Indonesian:terjauh(id)
• Macedonian:најда́леченm(najdálečen)
• Russian:наидальне́йший(naidalʹnéjšij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman:najdalji(sh)

• Spanish:último(es)
• Ukrainian:найвідда́леніший(najviddálenišyj)

eventual

• Bulgarian:немину́ем(bg)(neminúem),неизбе́жен(bg)(neizbéžen)
• Finnish:lopullinen(fi)
• Italian:definitivo(it)m,definitiva(it)f,conclusivo(it)m,conclusiva(it)f,ultimativo(it)m,ultimativa(it)f,finale(it)
• Macedonian:ко́неченm(kónečen),кра́енm(kráen)
• Russian:коне́чный(ru)(konéčnyj),оконча́тельный(ru)(okončátelʹnyj)
• Ukrainian:остато́чний(ostatóčnyj)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch:^{(pleaseverify)}ultiem(nl),^{(pleaseverify)}laatst(nl),^{(pleaseverify)}uiteindelijk(nl)
• French:^{(pleaseverify)}ultime(fr)
• German:^{(pleaseverify)}ultimativ(de)
• Latin:^{(pleaseverify)}ultimus

Noun

ultimate(countableanduncountable,pluralultimates)

1. The mostbasicorfundamentalof a set of things
2. Thefinalor most distant point; theconclusion
3. The greatestextremity;the maximum
4. (uncountable,sports)Ellipsisofultimate frisbee/ultimate disc.

Translations

the greatest extremity

• Finnish:äärimmäisyys(fi),ääri(fi)
• Maori:ikeiketanga

ultimate frisbee—seeultimate frisbee

Verb

ultimate(third-person singular simple presentultimates,present participleultimating,simple past and past participleultimated)

1. (transitive,archaic)Tofinish;tocomplete.
   • 1869,The New-Jerusalem Magazine,volume41,page36:

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

Further reading

• “ultimate”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith,editors (1911), “ultimate”,inThe Century Dictionary[…],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.

Anagrams

• mutilate

Finnish

Etymology

FromEnglishultimate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈultimɑte/,[ˈul̪t̪iˌmɑ̝t̪e̞]
• Rhymes:-ɑte
• Hyphenation^(key):ul‧ti‧ma‧te

Noun

ultimate

1. ultimate frisbee(game)

Declension

Inflectionofultimate(Kotustype 8/nalle,no gradation)
nominative		ultimate	ultimatet
genitive		ultimaten	ultimatejen
partitive		ultimatea	ultimateja
illative		ultimateen	ultimateihin
		singular	plural
nominative		ultimate	ultimatet
accusative	nom.	ultimate	ultimatet
	gen.	ultimaten
genitive		ultimaten	ultimatejen ultimateinrare
partitive		ultimatea	ultimateja
inessive		ultimatessa	ultimateissa
elative		ultimatesta	ultimateista
illative		ultimateen	ultimateihin
adessive		ultimatella	ultimateilla
ablative		ultimatelta	ultimateilta
allative		ultimatelle	ultimateille
essive		ultimatena	ultimateina
translative		ultimateksi	ultimateiksi
abessive		ultimatetta	ultimateitta
instructive		—	ultimatein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive formsofultimate(Kotustype 8/nalle,no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative ultimateni ultimateni accusative nom. ultimateni ultimateni gen. ultimateni genitive ultimateni ultimatejeni ultimateinirare partitive ultimateani ultimatejani inessive ultimatessani ultimateissani elative ultimatestani ultimateistani illative ultimateeni ultimateihini adessive ultimatellani ultimateillani ablative ultimateltani ultimateiltani allative ultimatelleni ultimateilleni essive ultimatenani ultimateinani translative ultimatekseni ultimateikseni abessive ultimatettani ultimateittani instructive — — comitative — ultimateineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative ultimatesi ultimatesi accusative nom. ultimatesi ultimatesi gen. ultimatesi genitive ultimatesi ultimatejesi ultimateisirare partitive ultimateasi ultimatejasi inessive ultimatessasi ultimateissasi elative ultimatestasi ultimateistasi illative ultimateesi ultimateihisi adessive ultimatellasi ultimateillasi ablative ultimateltasi ultimateiltasi allative ultimatellesi ultimateillesi essive ultimatenasi ultimateinasi translative ultimateksesi ultimateiksesi abessive ultimatettasi ultimateittasi instructive — — comitative — ultimateinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative ultimatemme ultimatemme accusative nom. ultimatemme ultimatemme gen. ultimatemme genitive ultimatemme ultimatejemme ultimateimmerare partitive ultimateamme ultimatejamme inessive ultimatessamme ultimateissamme elative ultimatestamme ultimateistamme illative ultimateemme ultimateihimme adessive ultimatellamme ultimateillamme ablative ultimateltamme ultimateiltamme allative ultimatellemme ultimateillemme essive ultimatenamme ultimateinamme translative ultimateksemme ultimateiksemme abessive ultimatettamme ultimateittamme instructive — — comitative — ultimateinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative ultimatenne ultimatenne accusative nom. ultimatenne ultimatenne gen. ultimatenne genitive ultimatenne ultimatejenne ultimateinnerare partitive ultimateanne ultimatejanne inessive ultimatessanne ultimateissanne elative ultimatestanne ultimateistanne illative ultimateenne ultimateihinne adessive ultimatellanne ultimateillanne ablative ultimateltanne ultimateiltanne allative ultimatellenne ultimateillenne essive ultimatenanne ultimateinanne translative ultimateksenne ultimateiksenne abessive ultimatettanne ultimateittanne instructive — — comitative — ultimateinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative ultimatensa ultimatensa accusative nom. ultimatensa ultimatensa gen. ultimatensa genitive ultimatensa ultimatejensa ultimateinsarare partitive ultimateaan ultimateansa ultimatejaan ultimatejansa inessive ultimatessaan ultimatessansa ultimateissaan ultimateissansa elative ultimatestaan ultimatestansa ultimateistaan ultimateistansa illative ultimateensa ultimateihinsa adessive ultimatellaan ultimatellansa ultimateillaan ultimateillansa ablative ultimateltaan ultimateltansa ultimateiltaan ultimateiltansa allative ultimatelleen ultimatellensa ultimateilleen ultimateillensa essive ultimatenaan ultimatenansa ultimateinaan ultimateinansa translative ultimatekseen ultimateksensa ultimateikseen ultimateiksensa abessive ultimatettaan ultimatettansa ultimateittaan ultimateittansa instructive — — comitative — ultimateineen ultimateinensa

Synonyms

• liitokiekkoilu

Anagrams

• amuletit,amuletti,laitumet,leimattu,leimatut

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

ultimate

1. inflection ofultimare:
   1. second-personpluralpresentindicative
   2. second-personpluralimperative

Etymology 2

Participle

ultimatefpl

1. femininepluralofultimato

Anagrams

• multiate,mutilate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ul.tiˈmaː.te/,[ʊɫ̪t̪ɪˈmäːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ul.tiˈma.te/,[ul̪t̪iˈmäːt̪e]

Verb

ultimāte

1. second-personpluralpresentactiveimperativeofultimō

Spanish

Verb

ultimate

1. second-personsingularvoseoimperativeofultimarcombined withte