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say it: UHL-tuh-muht
ultimate is an adjective and noun meaning "furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme". It is pronounced /ˈʌltəmət/ — UHL-tuh-muht. It carries 3 recorded senses.
being the last or concluding element of a series
“the ultimate sonata of that opus”
“a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ultimate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.