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ultimative

ultimative adjective: resembling an ultimatum.

Adjective

ultimative (comparative more ultimative, superlative most ultimative)

  1. Resembling an ultimatum.
    • Beard calls the United States reply on November 26 to the Japanese proposal of November 20 an “ultimative notice.” Morgenstern calls it more simply an “ultimatum.”1950, George Macgregor Waller, Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, page 98
    • […] Beck sent Kánya a letter “of ultimative character,” saying “that if we do not intervene, they (i.e. the Poles) will settle the question without us, but in that case they will eat the chestnuts.”1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, pages 209–10

Forms of ultimative

comparativemore ultimative
superlativemost ultimative

Origin of ultimative

From ultimatum + -ive.

Words formed from ultimative

Questions about ultimative

What does ultimative mean?
Ultimative means resembling an ultimatum.
What part of speech is ultimative?
Ultimative is an adjective.

Words near ultimative in the dictionary

  1. ultimating
  2. ultimation
  3. ultimatism
  4. ultimatist
  5. ultimatists
  6. ultimative
  7. ultimativity
  8. ultimatory
  9. ultimatum
  10. ultimatum game
  11. ultimatum games

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