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Borrowed from Latin ultrā (“beyond”).
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- Greater than normal quantity or importance, as in ultrasecret.
- Beyond, on the far side of, as in ultraviolet.
- Beyond, outside of, as in ultraterrestrial.
- Excessively, to an extreme, as in ultramicroscopic.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the **ultra-**wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
- (augmentative) intensely, extremely, or exceptional
- Productive in all senses. The hyphen may be included when the use is relatively unfamiliar, as in ultra-careful.
- (beyond): trans-, para-, hyper-, out-, extra-, preter-
- (on the far side of): trans-
- (excessively): over-, hyper-, ana-
- (augmentative): super-, supra-, hyper-, uber-, macro-, arch-, over-, mega-, maxi-, giga-, -zilla, grand
- infra-
- ultra-scalable
beyond, outside of
Bulgarian: извънредно (bg) (izvǎnredno)
Polish: ponad-
Scottish Gaelic: os-
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- ultra-
ultra- + _fialový_ → _ultrafialový_
- “ultra-”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “ultra-”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- ultra- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Borrowed from Latin ultrā (“beyond”).
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- ultra- (beyond, on the far side of; beyond, outside of)
- (informal) ultra- (greater than normal quantity or importance, excessively, to an extreme)
Borrowed from Latin ultrā (“beyond”).
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- ultra- (beyond, on the far side of; beyond, outside of)
Internationalism (see English ultra-), ultimately from Latin ultrā.
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“ultra-”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023
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- In political buzzwords (like ultrakonservativ), this suffix is derogatory.
- ultraradikal
- ultrareaktionär
Borrowed from Latin ultrā (“beyond”).[1]
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^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN
Borrowed from Latin ultrā (“beyond”).
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- ultra- (as for English)
- “ultra-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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- ultra- (as for English)
- “ultra-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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- “ultra-”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “ultra-”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
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- “ultra-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025