Word.ws English Dictionary

ultrabold

ultrabold adjective: bolder than a typical bold typeface.

Adjective

ultrabold (comparative more ultrabold, superlative most ultrabold)

  1. Bolder than a typical bold typeface.
    • Many commercial typefaces come in an "ultrabold" or "heavy bold" weight that is even larger than the regular bold available on the Mac. You can create ultrabold lettering in MacPaint as follows […]1986, Lon Poole, Lon Poole's Mac Insights, page 195
    • In England, a classification standard has been developed that contains eight weights: extralight, light, semilight, medium, semibold, bold, extrabold, and ultrabold.2014, Rob Carter, Philip B[axter] Meggs, Ben Day, Sandra Maxa, Mark Sanders, Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Edition 6), →ISBN, page 45

Forms of ultrabold

comparativemore ultrabold
superlativemost ultrabold

Origin of ultrabold

From ultra- + bold.

Questions about ultrabold

What does ultrabold mean?
Ultrabold means bolder than a typical bold typeface.
What part of speech is ultrabold?
Ultrabold is an adjective.

Words near ultrabold in the dictionary

  1. ultrabenevolent
  2. ultrabiomicroscopy
  3. ultrabithorax
  4. ultrablack
  5. ultrablond
  6. ultrabold
  7. ultrabook
  8. ultrabooks
  9. ultrabrachycephalic
  10. ultrabrachycephaly
  11. ultrabrave

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ultrabold (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: “ultrabold.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ultrabold. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.