Ultra
['ʌltrə]
Definition
(a.) Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme; fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures.
(n.) One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical.
Editor: Moore
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Extreme, radical.
n. Ultraist, extremist, radical.
Typed by Hector
Definition
adj. going beyond extreme—in composition as in Ultra-classical Ultra-fashionable Ultra-conservative Ultra-critical &c.—n. an ultraist: a fanatic.—ns. Ul′traism the principles of ultraists; Ul′traist one who carries to extremes the opinions or principles of his party.—Ultra vī′res beyond one's power or rights.
Editor: Robert
Examples
- A loud-speaking telephone with quartz cylinder and beam of ultra-violet light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But the beneficiaries of privilege, the Bourbon reactionaries, the short-sighted ultra-conservatives, turned down Turgot; and then found that instead of him they had obtained Robespierre. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Three devices for utilizing vibrations beyond the ultra violet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For fear that somebody may regard this as a play on words drawn from some ultra-modern anti-intellectualist source, let me quote Santayana. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Good mothers are married over again at their daughters' weddings: and as for subsequent events, who does not know how ultra-maternal grandmothers are? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Only Pennsylvania had a single representative chamber, and that was felt to be a very dangerous and ultra-democratic state of affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was to her the most crucial instance of the existing world, the NE PLUS ULTRA of the world of man as it existed for her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Orville