ultra-
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʌltɹə/
Prefix
ultra-
- Greater than normal quantity or importance, as in ultrasecret.
- Beyond, on the far side of, as in ultraviolet.
- Beyond, outside of, as in ultrasonic.
- Excessively, to an extreme, as in ultramicroscopic, ultra-careful.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
- In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
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Usage notes
- Productive in all senses. The hyphen is included when the use is relatively unfamiliar, as in ultra-careful.
Antonyms
Derived terms
- ultra-scalable
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Translations
greater than normal quantity or importance
beyond, on the far side of
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ultra-/, [ˈultˢʁ̥ɑˈ-], [ˈultˢʁ̥ɑˌ-]
Prefix
ultra-
- ultra- (beyond, on the far side of; beyond, outside of)
- (informal) ultra- (greater than normal quantity or importance, excessively, to an extreme)
- ultralet, ultrakort, ultramoderne, ultratynd
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʏl.traː/
French
Derived terms
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Italian
Derived terms
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Norwegian Bokmål
Derived terms
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Derived terms
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈultɾa/, [ˈul̪t̪ɾa]
Derived terms
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Further reading
- “ultra-” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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