ultimate

• From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), past participle of Latin ultimō, ultimāre (“to come to an end”), from ultimus (“last, final”). See ultra-.
• (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.

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

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

ultimate (not comparable)

1. Final; last in a series.
   • 1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England‎^[1], page 15:

     […] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]

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, 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, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

     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

• (adjectives denoting syllables): penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)

ultimate (countable and uncountable, plural ultimates)

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 (third-person singular simple present 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.

• “ultimate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ultimate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• mutilate

From English ultimate.

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

ultimate

1. ultimate frisbee (game)

• liitokiekkoilu

• amuletit, amuletti, laitumet, leimattu, leimatut

ultimate

1. inflection of ultimare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

ultimate f pl

1. feminine plural of ultimato

• multiate, mutilate

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

ultimāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ultimō

ultimate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of ultimar combined with te