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ultimate

adj
/ˈʌltɪmət/US/ălʈɪmeʈ/

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.

  1. derived from ultimātus — “furthest, last”

Definitions

  1. Final

    Final; last in a series.

    • […] 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.

  3. Being the greatest possible

    Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.

    • the ultimate pleasure
    • the ultimate disappointment
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. Being the most distant or extreme

      Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.

    2. That will happen at some time

      That will happen at some time; eventual.

    3. Last in a train of progression or consequences

      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

    4. Incapable of further analysis

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

      • an ultimate constituent of matter

    5. The most basic or fundamental of a set of things

    6. The final or most distant point

      The final or most distant point; the conclusion

    7. The greatest extremity

      The greatest extremity; the maximum

    8. Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee or ultimate disc.

    9. To finish

      To finish; to complete.

      • 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.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ultimate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ultimate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at ultimate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA