Word.ws English Dictionary

ne plus ultras

ne plus ultras is the plural of ne plus ultra.

Meaning of ne plus ultra

Noun

ne plus ultra (plural ne plus ultras)

  1. The highest, ultimate point of achievement which can be reached; perfection.
    • Suppers were the ne plus ultra of human invention; it could go no further, and was obliged to degenerate; dinner is too much matter of business, it is a necessity: now, a necessity is too like a duty ever to be pleasant.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Success”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 74
  2. The perfect or most extreme example of its kind; the ultimate.
  3. (rare) A prohibition against proceeding further; an insuperable obstacle or limiting condition.

Questions about ne plus ultras

What is ne plus ultras the plural of?
Ne plus ultras is the plural of ne plus ultra.

Words near ne plus ultras in the dictionary

  1. ne
  2. ne bis in idem
  3. ne exeat
  4. ne exeats
  5. ne plus ultra
  6. ne plus ultras
  7. ne'er
  8. ne'er cast a clout till May be out
  9. ne'er-do-well
  10. ne'er-do-wells
  11. ne'ertheless

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ne plus ultras (page history and authors); ne plus ultra (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ne plus ultras.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ne_plus_ultras. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.