ultimative

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English

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Etymology

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From ultimatum +‎ -ive.

Adjective

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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

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Adjective

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ultimative

  1. feminine plural of ultimativo