Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

ultimate

/ˈʌltɪmət/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms ultimates ultimating ultimated

  1. adjective (not comparable) Final; last in a series.
  2. adjective (not comparable, of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
  3. adjective Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme. “the ultimate pleasure”
  4. adjective Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
  5. adjective (not comparable) That will happen at some time; eventual.
  6. adjective (not comparable) Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
  7. adjective (not comparable) Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental. “an ultimate constituent of matter”
  8. noun The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
  9. noun The final or most distant point; the conclusion
  10. noun The greatest extremity; the maximum
  11. verb (transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.

Synonyms

conclusive last terminal extreme final decisive definitive endly endsome hindermost hindmost supreme utmost uttermost ferocious exquisite intense almighty greatest highest

Antonyms

initial original derivative proximate

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.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.
  2. adjective Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
  3. verb To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end. [R.]
  4. verb To come or bring into use or practice. [R.]

Etymology [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L. ultimare to come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same source as ulterior. See Ulterior, and cf. Ultimatum.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ultimate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “ultimate” (best matches first).