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Definition: ULTRA- |
ULTRA-Adjective1. 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. |
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-). |
| 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 | 超 (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 | 超 (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 сверх- (extra-, hyper-, super-). (various references) ultra- (ultra). (various references) 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) ultra-, ytterlighets- (extreme, prankish), topp- (crack, summit, top), stock-, hyper- (hyper-), över- (hyper-, over, over-, super-, supra-, top). (various references) ультра-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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