ultimate
Final; last in a series.
Other meanings
Last in a word or other utterance.
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
“the ultimate pleasure”
Related words
- subultimate
- superultimate
- triultimate
- ultimately
- Ultimateverse
- ultimatism
- ultimatist
- ultimatory
- pay the ultimate price
- super-ultimate
- ultimate sacrifice
- ultimate tensile strength
Example sentences
Word history
From Medieval Latin "ultimātus" (furthest, last).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “ultimate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.