ultimates
USUL-tuh-mits/ˈʌltəməts/UKUL-ti-mits/ˈʌltɪməts/
- 1Plural of ultimate.
Metaphysics concerns itself with the ultimates that underlie all reality.
He reduced his entire argument to a handful of moral ultimates.
Note
A plural that only some meanings of the noun can take. It counts fundamentals, as in moral ultimates or the ultimates beneath reality, and it can also count final points or extremes. The sport is different: ultimate, short for ultimate frisbee, is a mass noun, so a team plays ultimate, never ultimates. The adjective, meaning last in a series, has no plural at all.
ultimates is a form of ultimate
ultimate, noun: The greatest extremity or the highest possible degree of something. Full entry
- Forms
- ultimateultimates plural
- Spelling
- ultimate → ultimates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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