Meanings
- not comparableBeing everywhere at once: omnipresent.
In Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, God is ubiquitous.
Synonyms: omnipresent
- not comparableAppearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.
There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 4492 more examples
One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “’’Moby Dick’’, Chapter 41”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLCThis deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power.
1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29Synonyms: ever-present
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBeing everywhere at once: omnipresent.
adjectiveAppearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebeing present everywhere at once
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinubīque“everywhere”
- Medieval Latinubīquitās
- Englishubiquitous
From ubiquity + -ous, from Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque (“everywhere”), from ubī̆ (“where”) + -que (“each, ever”). Compare ubiety.
More words from Medieval Latin, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans alomteenwoordig, alomteenwoordig
- alomteenwoordigbeing everywhere
- alomteenwoordigseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Bulgarian повсеместен, вездесъщ
- повсеместен (povsemesten)being everywhere
- вездесъщ (vezdesăšt)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Catalan ubic, ubic
- ubicbeing everywhere
- ubicseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Chinese Mandarin 無處不在的 /无处不在的, 無所不在的 /无所不在的
- 無處不在的 /无处不在的 (wúchùbùzài de)being everywhere
- 無所不在的 /无所不在的 (wúsuǒbùzài de)being everywhere
- 無處不在的 /无处不在的 (wúchùbùzài de)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
- 無所不在的 /无所不在的 (wúsuǒbùzài de)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Czech všudypřítomný, všudypřítomný
- všudypřítomnýbeing everywhere
- všudypřítomnýseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Danish allestedsnærværende
- allestedsnærværendebeing everywhere
Dutch alomtegenwoordig, overal aanwezig
- alomtegenwoordigbeing everywhere
- overal aanwezigbeing everywhere
- alomtegenwoordigseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Finnish kaikkialla läsnä oleva, ubiikki
- kaikkialla läsnä olevabeing everywhere
- ubiikkibeing everywhere
- yleisesti levinnytbeing everywhere
- kaikkialla läsnä olevaseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
- ubiikkiseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
French ubiquiste, ubiquitaire
- ubiquistebeing everywhere
- ubiquitairebeing everywhere
- omniprésentbeing everywhere
- ubiquisteseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
- ubiquitaireseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
German allgegenwärtig, überall vorhanden
- allgegenwärtigbeing everywhere
- überall vorhandenbeing everywhere
- überall verbreitetbeing everywhere
- ubiquitärbeing everywhere
- allgegenwärtigseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
- überall vorhandenseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Greek πανταχού παρών, πανταχού παρών
- πανταχού παρών (pantachoú parón)being everywhere
- πανταχού παρών (pantachoú parón)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Hindi सर्वव्यापी, सर्वव्यापक
- सर्वव्यापी (sarvavyāpī)being everywhere
- सर्वव्यापक (sarvavyāpak)being everywhere
- सर्वत्रव्याप्त (sarvatravyāpt)being everywhere
- सर्वत्रवर्तमान (sarvatravartamān)being everywhere
- सार्वत्रिक (sārvatrik)being everywhere
- सर्वगत (sarvagat)being everywhere
- विभु (vibhu)being everywhere
- देशव्यापी (deśavyāpī)being everywhere
- हर जगह (har jagah)being everywhere
- सर्वव्यापी (sarvavyāpī)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
- सर्वव्यापक (sarvavyāpak)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
- सर्वत्रव्याप्त (sarvatravyāpt)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Hungarian mindenütt jelen levő
- mindenütt jelen levőbeing everywhere
Italian ubiquitario, onnipresente
- ubiquitariobeing everywhere
- onnipresentebeing everywhere
- ubiquitarioseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Japanese 遍在する
- 遍在する (henzai suru)being everywhere
Latin ubique, ens ubique
- ubiquebeing everywhere
- ens ubiquebeing everywhere
- omnipraesensbeing everywhere
- ens undiquebeing everywhere
- ubiquitusseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
- visus simul ubiqueseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Norwegian Bokmål allestedsnærværende
- allestedsnærværendebeing everywhere
Persian همه جا, همه جا
- همه جا (hama jā)being everywhere
- همه جا (hama jā)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Polish wszędobylski, wszechobecny
- wszędobylskibeing everywhere
- wszechobecnybeing everywhere
- wszechobecnyseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Portuguese ubíquo, omnipresente
- ubíquobeing everywhere
- omnipresentebeing everywhere
- onipresentebeing everywhere
- ubíquoseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Romanian ubicuu, omniprezent
- ubicuubeing everywhere
- omniprezentbeing everywhere
Russian вездесу́щий, вездесу́щий
- вездесу́щий (vezdesúščij)being everywhere
- вездесу́щий (vezdesúščij)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Spanish ubicuo, ubicuo
- ubicuobeing everywhere
- ubicuoseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
- comúnseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Swedish allestädes närvarande, allmänt utbredd
- allestädes närvarandebeing everywhere
- allmänt utbreddbeing everywhere
- (de är, man ser dem) överalltseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Thai พบทั่วไป, แพร่หลาย
- พบทั่วไปbeing everywhere
- แพร่หลายbeing everywhere
- ดาษดื่นbeing everywhere
- ดกดื่นbeing everywhere
- เกลื่อนกลาดbeing everywhere
- มีอยู่ทุกหนทุกแห่ง (mii-yùu-túk-hǒn-túk-hɛ̀ng)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Turkish aynı zamanda her yerde bulunan, hâzır ve nâzır
- aynı zamanda her yerde bulunanbeing everywhere
- hâzır ve nâzırbeing everywhere
- hâzır ve nâzırseeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Ukrainian повсю́дний, всюдису́щий
- повсю́дний (povsjúdnyj)being everywhere
- всюдису́щий (vsjudysúščyj)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
- всепрису́тній (vseprysútnij)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Urdu ہر جگہ, ہر جگہ
- ہر جگہ (har jagah)being everywhere
- ہر جگہ (har jagah)seeming to appear everywhere at the same time
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with ubiquitous
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