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ULTRA-

Definition: ULTRA-

ULTRA-

Adjective

1. A prefix from the Latin ultra beyond (see Ulterior), having in composition the signification beyond, on the other side, chiefly when joined with words expressing relations of place; as, ultramarine, ultramontane, ultramundane, ultratropical, etc. In other relations it has the sense of excessively, exceedingly, beyond what is common, natural, right, or proper; as, ultraconservative; ultrademocratic, ultradespotic, ultraliberal, ultraradical, etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: ULTRA-

Etymologies containing "ULTRA-": Ultramundane, Ultrared, Ultratropical, ultraviolet, Ultrazodiacal, Ultroneous. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ULTRA-" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (ultra-), Czech (ultra), German (ultra, ultra-), Italian (ultra-), Serbo-Croatian (ultra, ultra-), Spanish (ultra-), Swedish (ultra-).

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Modern Translation: ULTRA-

Language Translations for "ULTRA-"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ultra-. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ултра-, свръх- (hyper-, over-, super-, sur-), крайно (extremely, highly, intolerable, miserably, passing, sopping, terribly, to death, unco, unmercifully, unusually, utterly), извънредно (amain, exceedingly, extremely, immensely, mightily, mortally, most, notably, only too, over, overly, overtime, passing, remarkably, sorely, supremely, terrifically, unco, unusually, utterly, vastly). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(overtake, super-, surpass, to cross, to exceed, to pass, transcend). (various references)

   

French

  

???. (various references)

   

German

  

ultra- (ultra). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πέραν-, υπερ- (over-, super-). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ultra-. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(hyper-, super-). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちょう (billion, block, bowels, butterfly, cake, condoling with, frivolity, government office, guts, hyper-, indication, intestines, leaf, mourning, omen, pitch, portent, sign, super-, tempo, time, tone, trillion). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

매우 (Precious, Pretty, ultra). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

a-ultray

   

Russian 

  

сверх- (extra-, hyper-, super-). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ultra- (ultra). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ultra-, super- (mega-, over-, super-), extremo (butt, critical, desperate, end, extreme, extremity, far, furthest, highest point, last, outer, outermost, outside, paramount, superlative, thoroughgoing, ultimate, utmost, wing). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ultra-, ytterlighets- (extreme, prankish), topp- (crack, summit, top), stock-, hyper- (hyper-), över- (hyper-, over, over-, super-, supra-, top). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ультра-. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ULTRA-

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ultra.

Words within the letters "a-l-r-t-u"

-2 letters: alt, art, lar, lat, rat, rut, tar, tau, uta.

-3 letters: al, ar, at, la, ta, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-l-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: artful, brutal, curtal, lustra, ritual, torula, ultras.

 

+2 letters: austral, butyral, crustal, curtail, curtals, estrual, futural, lustral, mutular, natural, neutral, refutal, rituals, saluter, sutural, tabular, tearful, tegular, titular, torulae, torulas, trayful, tubular, tumoral, tumular, tutelar, uralite, vaulter, virtual.

 

+3 letters: abruptly, adulator, adultery, aflutter, altruism, altruist, alumroot, artfully, auntlier, australs, baluster, brutally, butyrals, calutron, claustra, cultivar, cultrate, cultural, curtails, curtalax, dentural, emulator, faultier, filature, fistular, flaunter, gastrula, gestural, grateful, guttural, laudator, laughter, laureate, lazurite, ligature, lustrate, maturely, multicar, muralist, naturals, neutrals, nurtural, outbrawl, outcrawl, outglare, outlawry, outlearn, outrival, pastural, plastrum, postural, preadult, pubertal, pulsator, pustular, quartile, rebuttal, refutals, regulate, requital, resalute, reticula, retinula, ritually, rosulate, ruralist, ruralite, rurality, rustable, rustical, rutilant, salutary, saluters, spatular, staumrel, stipular, tailleur, tenurial, textural, tissular, titulars, titulary, trainful, tranquil, trauchle, trayfuls, tribunal, troupial, turbinal, turnable, turnhall, turrical, tutelars, tutelary, tutorial, ulcerate, ultradry, ultrahip, ultrahot, ultraism, ultraist, ultralow, ultrared, unartful, unlearnt, uprootal, uralites, uralitic, ureteral, urethral, valuator, vaulters, vaultier, vestural, wrathful.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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