Extra vs Ultra - What's the difference?
extra | ultra |
Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
(dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.
(informal) To an extraordinary degree.
(cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in Australia referred to as a sundry.
An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle.
A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
Extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising.
An ultraroyalist in France.
* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 37:
*:"At any rate that is what he explained to me," I said hastily while the lawyer rubbed his long ultra' s nose and sighed.
An extremist.
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(usually, capitalised) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.
As adjectives the difference between extra and ultra
is that extra is beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary while ultra is extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising.As nouns the difference between extra and ultra
is that extra is a run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in Australia referred to as a sundry while ultra is an ultraroyalist in France.As an adverb extra
is to an extraordinary degree.extra
English
Adjective
(-)- extra''' work; '''extra pay
Derived terms
* extranessAdverb
(-)- That day he ran to school extra fast.
Noun
(en noun)- extra''', '''extra , read all about it!
Derived terms
* wuxtryDerived terms
* extra credit English degree adverbs ----ultra
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an ultra''' reformer; '''ultra measures
Noun
(en noun)Foreign '''ultrakilled, three injured in J&K," ''The Times of India , 29 Dec. (retrieved 21 Apr. 2009):
- Five militants were nabbed while four ultras of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) gave themselves up.