ultimateとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʌltɪmɪt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʌltəmɪt/

形容詞

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, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Coleridge かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     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

同意語

• (final): See Thesaurus:final
• (most extreme): utmost, uttermost

反意語

• (w.r.t. causes): proximate

等位語

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

派生語

• antepenultimate
• penultimate
• ultimateness

関連する語

• ulterior
• ultimatum
• ultra
• ultra-

名詞

ultimate (複数形 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) A non-contact competitive team sport played with a 175 gram flying disc, the object of which is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone.

   Ultimate (sport) on Wikipedia.

動詞

ultimate (三人称単数 現在形 ultimates, 現在分詞 ultimating, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

Further reading

• ultimate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ultimate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• mutilate

Latin

動詞

ultimāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ultimō