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So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.
Michael Beschloss

Meaning of "ultimately" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ULTIMATELY

ultimately  [ˈʌltɪmɪtlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ULTIMATELY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ultimately is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES ULTIMATELY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ultimately in the English dictionary

The definition of ultimately in the dictionary is in the end; at last; finally.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ULTIMATELY


alternately
ɔːlˈtɜːnɪtlɪ
approximately
əˈprɒksɪmɪtlɪ
brightly
ˈbraɪtlɪ
definitely
ˈdɛfɪnɪtlɪ
explicitly
ɪkˈsplɪsɪtlɪ
fortunately
ˈfɔːtʃənɪtlɪ
greatly
ˈɡreɪtlɪ
illegitimately
ˌɪlɪˈdʒɪtɪmɪtlɪ
implicitly
ɪmˈplɪsɪtlɪ
indefinitely
ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪtlɪ
infinitely
ˈɪnfɪnɪtlɪ
lately
ˈleɪtlɪ
lightly
ˈlaɪtlɪ
nightly
ˈnaɪtlɪ
proximately
ˈprɒksɪmɪtlɪ
rightly
ˈraɪtlɪ
secretly
ˈsiːkrɪtlɪ
slightly
ˈslaɪtlɪ
tightly
ˈtaɪtlɪ
unfortunately
ʌnˈfɔːtʃənɪtlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ULTIMATELY

ulterior
ulterior motive
ulteriorly
ultima
ultima Thule
ultimacy
ultimata
ultimate
ultimate constituent
ultimate strength
ultimateness
ultimatum
ultimo
ultimogeniture
ultion
ultra
ultra filtration
Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel
ultra vires
ultra-distance

WORDS THAT END LIKE ULTIMATELY

absolutely
accurately
adequately
affectionately
appropriately
deliberately
delicately
desperately
disproportionately
immaculately
immediately
inappropriately
intimately
intricately
legitimately
moderately
passionately
predominately
privately
separately
stately

Synonyms and antonyms of ultimately in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ULTIMATELY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ultimately» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ultimately

Translation of «ultimately» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ULTIMATELY

Find out the translation of ultimately to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ultimately from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ultimately» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

最后
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en última instancia
570 millions of speakers

English

ultimately
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अंततः
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نِهَائِيّاً
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

в конце концов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

no final das contas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরিণামে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

au bout du compte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Akhirnya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

letztlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

最終的に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

결국
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pungkasane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cuối cùng thì
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறுதியில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शेवटी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

en sonunda
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

infine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ostatecznie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

остаточно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

în cele din urmă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τελικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uiteindelik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slutligen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

til sist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ultimately

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ULTIMATELY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ultimately

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10 QUOTES WITH «ULTIMATELY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ultimately.
1
Greg Berlanti
Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.
2
Tim Berners-Lee
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
3
Michael Beschloss
So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.
4
Joe Biden
This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
5
Shane Black
An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.
6
Jayson Blair
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
7
Edward Bond
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
8
Kim Dotcom
If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie industry - from Betamax tape to DVDs to the Internet - in the end, it has always turned out right, because ultimately people want to see that stuff.
9
Troy Dumais
Ultimately if the body is in tune, most likely the mind is in tune.
10
Jay Duplass
I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ULTIMATELY»

Discover the use of ultimately in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ultimately and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately ...
A remarkable tale, The Big Ditch offers vital lessons about the impact of large-scale infrastructure projects, American overseas interventions on institutional development, and the ability of governments to run companies effectively.
Noel Maurer, Carlos Yu, 2010
2
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately ...
Peter Ward mounts a sustained critique of optimizing/homeostatic Gaia, providing a lucid set of examples of significant positive feedbacks arising from life. This book will have a strong heuristic impact on future research.
Peter Ward, 2009
3
Ultimately fiction: design in modern American literary biography
Through an analysis of Steven Millhauser's satiric novel/biography, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, Petrie outlines a technique for judging specifically literary biographies as aesthetic objects—works revealing ...
Dennis W. Petrie, 1981
4
Free Will (Second Edition):
Nothing can be ultimately causa sui in any respect at all. Even if God can be, we can't be. Kane says little about moral responsibility in his paper, but his position seems to be that true moral responsibility is possible if indeterminism is true.
Derk Pereboom, 2009
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Automata for Branching and Layered Temporal Structures: An ...
Hereafter, we denote by UA the universal ω-language that consists of all and only the ultimately periodic words over A. Moreover, given an ω-language L ⊆ Aω,we denote by UP(L) the ω-language L∩UA, which consists ofall and only the ...
Gabriele Puppis, 2010
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A Globally Uniformly Ultimately Bounded Adaptive Robust ...
The other focus of this work is on the dynamic friction compensation.
Yun Hong, 2008
7
Ultimately - The Will of God Decides: The New Light Publishing
'God does not wonders if we ourselves do not actively participate.
Katharina Beta, 2012
8
Indian Buddhist Theories of Persons: Vasubandhu's ...
We need to realize, as well, that Vasubandhu does not reject the view that persons ultimately exist. For he too believes that conventionally real persons ultimately exist by reason of being the same in existence as collections of aggregates.
James Duerlinger, 2003
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To Rome and Back With Martin Luther: The Pilgrimage That ...
In the winter of 1510-1511 Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk from Erfurt, Germany, made a pilgrimage to Rome on behalf of his religious order.
Michael A. Thompson, 2010
10
To See the Buddha: A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of ...
Ultimately there is no "ultimate" experience of a palace. But, while there is no relationship in reality between the two perspectives, there is a logical relationship that tells a great deal about both. If something arises conventionally, it has to be ...
Malcolm David Eckel, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ULTIMATELY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ultimately is used in the context of the following news items.
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China's rigged markets will ultimately destabilize global capitalism
Beijing's efforts to engineer a strong stock rally and the recent Shanghai market collapse have had quite limited effects on Western markets, but going forward ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
2
China's Rigged Markets Will Ultimately Destroy Global Capitalism
Beijing's efforts to engineer a strong stock rally and the recent Shanghai market collapse have had quite limited effects on western markets, but going forward the ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
3
Why the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement May Ultimately Win
The fossil fuel divestment campaign has so far persuaded only a handful of universities and investment funds to change their policies. But if the movement can ... «Yale Environment 360, Jul 15»
4
How Trump May Ultimately Help Bush
The paradox of Donald Trump's bombastic presidential campaign is that his rise may ultimately benefit the rival he has attacked most vociferously. With his ... «National Journal, Jul 15»
5
Fire Emblem Awakening's Success Ultimately Saved the Franchise
In a recent edition of Iwata asks (via Destructoid), Nintendo President Satoru Iwata spoke with some of the people involved in the development of Fire Emblem: ... «IGN, Jun 15»
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'A justice system that fails children ultimately fails society,' UN rights …
“An administration of justice that fails children ultimately also fails society.” According to the report, “between 1 March 2014 and 28 February 2015 inclusive, she ... «UN News Centre, Jun 15»
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Logan Mankins Trade Ultimately A Patriots Win Despite Tim Wright's …
It's unclear why Wright saw such a precipitous fall from grace that ultimately concluded with his release Thursday. Mankins would have helped the 2014 Patriots ... «NESN.com, Jun 15»
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French telecom Orange says it 'ultimately' will pull brand out of Israel
The French telecom company Orange said Thursday that it “ultimately” planned to pull its brand name from Israel, giving a boost to an international boycott ... «Los Angeles Times, Jun 15»
9
Alibaba's latest deal could ultimately challenge the Bloomberg …
Bloomberg has such a lockdown on the lucrative financial data market that some clients are desperate to wean themselves off of its terminals. While few ... «Quartz, Jun 15»
10
Despite Its Big Ideas, Tomorrowland Ultimately Falls Short
And ultimately it celebrates the kind of exceptionalism we all hope to have. It's a really nice idea, one nearly impossible to dislike, but it's a concept that we ... «Wired, May 15»

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