ultimative

English

Etymology

From ultimatum +‎ -ive.

Adjective

ultimative (comparative more ultimative, superlative most ultimative)

1. Resembling an ultimatum.
   • 1950, George Macgregor Waller, Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, page 98:

     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.”

   • 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, pages 209–10:

     […] 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.”

   • 1989, Jörg Jeremias, The Book of Amos: A Commentary, →ISBN, page 89:

     The only parallel within the book of Amos to this ultimative warning with its emphasis on the last chance is found in Amos 4:12 […]

Italian

Adjective

ultimative

1. feminine plural of ultimativo