English-German translations for ultimate

• ultimativ
  Wissenschaftler äußern die Befürchtung, dass 2005 das ultimativ wärmste Jahr in der Geschichte werden kann. Scientists are expressing fears that 2005 may ultimately be the hottest year in history.
• äußerster
• letzter
• Nonplusultra das

Definition of ultimate

• Final; last in a series
• Last in a word or other utterance
• Being the most distant or extreme; farthest
• Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final
• Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental
• The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
• The greatest extremity; the maximum
• To finish; to complete

Examples

• the ultimate pleasure
• the ultimate disappointment
• an ultimate constituent of matter

Related words

• ultimately
• penultimate
• antepenultimate
• preantepenultimate
• ultimate frisbee
• ultimate tensile strength
• ultimate syllable
• ultimate biodegradation
• ultimate goal