Meanings
adjectiveultralight (not comparable)
- not comparableExtremely light; weighing very little.
nounultralight (plural ultralights)
plural ultralights
- An aircraft that weighs very little.
The last time I was at Victoria Falls, ultralights and hang gliders, small planes and helicopters, hot-air balloons and bungee jumpers, gorge swingers and rappelers and cable sliders were jostling for air space above the falls and the canyons that slice through the black basalt below them.
2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
Origin
- Englishultra-
- Old Englishlēoht
- Middle Englishlight
- Englishlight
- Englishultralight
Translations
Danish ultralet
- ultraletextremely light in weight
Finnish ultrakevyt lentokone, ultra
- ultrakevyt lentokoneaircraft that weighs very little
- ultraaircraft that weighs very little
- ultrakevytaircraft that weighs very little
- UL-koneaircraft that weighs very little
German Ultraleichtflugzeug
- Ultraleichtflugzeugaircraft that weighs very little
Norwegian Bokmål ultralett
- ultralettextremely light in weight
Slovak ultralight
- ultralightaircraft that weighs very little
Spanish ultraligero, ultraliviano
- ultraligeroextremely light in weight
- ultralivianoextremely light in weight
- ultraligeroaircraft that weighs very little
Cite this entry
APA
ultralight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ultralight
MLA
“ultralight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ultralight. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ultralight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ultralight.
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