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Ultimate vs Inevitability - What's the difference?

ultimate | inevitability |

In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between ultimate and inevitability

is that ultimate is (uncountable) the sport of ultimate frisbee while inevitability is (uncountable) the condition of being inevitable.

As nouns the difference between ultimate and inevitability

is that ultimate is the most basic or fundamental of a set of things while inevitability is (uncountable) the condition of being inevitable.

As an adjective ultimate

is final; last in a series.

ultimate

English

Adjective

(wikipedia ultimate) (-)
  • Final; last in a series.
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  • (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
  • Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
  • the ultimate pleasure
    the ultimate disappointment
  • *
  • Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
  • Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
  • That will happen at some time; eventual.
  • Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
  • * Coleridge
  • those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
  • Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
  • an ultimate constituent of matter

    Antonyms

    * proximate

    Derived terms

    * antepenultimate * penultimate * ultimateness

    Coordinate terms

    * (syllable adjectives)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
  • The final or most distant point; the conclusion
  • The greatest extremity; the maximum
  • (uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    inevitability

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being inevitable.
  • (countable) An inevitable condition or outcome.
  • Synonyms

    * certainty * necessity

    Antonyms

    * evitability * impossibility * contingency