Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent: "plodded through the shadows fruitlessly like an ubiquitous spook” ( Joseph Heller).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Being or existing everywhere; actually or apparently omnipresent: often used in an exaggerated or humorous sense.
Wiktionary
- adj. Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
- adj. Seeming to appear everywhere at the same time.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being present everywhere at once
Examples
“His own goal was to see us reach the same state in respect of computing - hence the term ubiquitous computing.”
“So ubiquitous is this t-shirt in Washington, even President Obama's supporters have appropriated it.”
The Washington Post: Poll: Which other Bad Brains album cover would make the best t-shirt?
“The need to cover one's nether regions, while not ubiquitous, is nearly so.”
“Here's an article that Greenfield wrote on the subject of ubicomp ethics, called "All watched over by machines of loving grace: Some ethical guidelines for user experience in ubiquitous-computing settings.”
“The fascinating thing about Web 2.0 and its coming shift to mobile/ubiquitous is that this will (and already does) create whole new cultural patterns that have to be understood in their own right.”
“The word ubiquitous was used in an article willi and I read shortly after the school year started in reference to student dress codes.”
“We had a fry-up with my housemates at Bon's (super cheap diner), then hit the road for a very quick touristy thing, driving up to Cypress Lookout and a quick walk in ubiquitous lovely forest.”
“The ever-astute Phil Agre offers several good links for those interested in ubiquitous computing.”
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » All Things Pervasive: Good Ubicomp Resources
“His smiling face adorns Warsaw in ubiquitous advertisements and he was named the fourth-best athlete in Poland last year, finishing only behind Olympic medalists.”
USATODAY.com - Olisadebe has countrymen feeling polar opposite
“To encounter their vigilance with watchfulness as alert, to confound their swift counsels with sudden alarm, to penetrate their ambuscades and anticipate their cunning with incessant activity, to be, in short, ubiquitous, was the duty of Captain Lyon.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ubiquitous’.
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( etymology )
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 837 more...
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adjectives
amort, propense, aguish, seclusive, pokerish, horrent, stem-winding, indign, obzocky, abnormous, fallow, dividuous and 39 more...
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My favorite sounds
My favorite words to say.
ubiquitous, nightingale, silhouette, crevice, gloom, acquiesce, maniacal, plethora, serendipitous, oceanic, dollop
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brian's biffs
melancholy, bucolic, visceral, cacophony, burlesque, exogenous, epiphany, monetization, accretive, opulent, splendid, seismic and 9 more...
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Adjectives ending with ous
facetious, ambidextrous, glamourous, ridiculous, humorous, luminous, ubiquitous, gorgeous, precious, jealous
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just some words
hernesheir The phony umbrage that attends this word is ubiquitous but not quite omnipresent, I aver. Sep 16, 2009
davewphillips literally means "the thing speaks for itself" Jul 5, 2009
whichbe This word sticks out in my mind as the first new word I learned in 9th grade English glass. Jun 17, 2009
milosrdenstvi I finally decided today that this is my favourite word. Jun 17, 2009
milosrdenstvi There's a character in Comenius's Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart whose name is translated in English 'Searchall Ubiquitous'. He turns out to be rather a rogue... Aug 20, 2008
kaulnalin It seems Burntsox is peeved by the ubiquity of this word. Jan 11, 2008
burntsox i see this word all over the place! Oct 25, 2007
thinkcharlene Law & Order - Season 15, Episode 16 - "The Sixth Man" Feb 20, 2007