ne plus ultra

Questions about ne plus ultra

What does ne plus ultra mean?

ne plus ultra means "the state of being without a flaw or defect".

What is another word for ne plus ultra?

Close synonyms include perfection, flawlessness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ne plus ultra a common word?

ne plus ultra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.