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ubiquitous

  • /juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/ UK
  • /juːˈbɪkwətəs/ UK
  • /juˈbɪkwɪtəs/ Canada, US
  • [juˈbɪkwɪɾəs] Canada, US
  • /juˈbɪkwətəs/ Canada, US
  • [juˈbɪkwəɾəs] Canada, US
  • /jʉːˈbɪkwɪtəs/ Australia
  • [jʉːˈbɪkwɪɾəs] Australia

Rhymes with -ɪkwɪtəs

Where it comes from

From ubiquity + -ous, from Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque (“everywhere”), from ubī̆ (“where”) + -que (“each, ever”). Compare ubiety.

adjective

  1. not comparable Being everywhere at once: omnipresent. In Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, God is ubiquitous.

    Similar: omnipresent

  2. not comparable Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time. 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.

    Similar: ever-present

  3. not comparable Widespread; very prevalent.

    Similar: common, pervasive

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: omnipresent, present, pervasive, generalised, generalized, prevalent, allover, systematic, widespread, well-known, everywhere, ever-present, rife, disseminated, prominent, notorious

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adj being everywhere

Españolubicuo
日本語遍在する henzai suru
中文無處不在的 /无处不在的 wúchùbùzài de, 無所不在的 /无所不在的 wúsuǒbùzài de
हिन्दीसर्वव्यापी sarvavyāpī, सर्वव्यापक sarvavyāpak, सर्वत्रव्याप्त sarvatravyāpt, सर्वत्रवर्तमान sarvatravartamān, सार्वत्रिक sārvatrik, सर्वगत sarvagat
Portuguêsubíquo, omnipresente, onipresente
Françaisubiquiste, ubiquitaire, omniprésent
Deutschallgegenwärtig, überall vorhanden, überall verbreitet, ubiquitär
Italianoubiquitario, onnipresente
Ελληνικάπανταχού παρών pantachoú parón
Românăubicuu, omniprezent
Русскийвездесу́щий vezdesúščij

adj seeming to appear everywhere at the same time

Españolubicuo, común
中文無處不在的 /无处不在的 wúchùbùzài de, 無所不在的 /无所不在的 wúsuǒbùzài de
हिन्दीसर्वव्यापी sarvavyāpī, सर्वव्यापक sarvavyāpak, सर्वत्रव्याप्त sarvatravyāpt, सर्वत्रवर्तमान sarvatravartamān, सार्वत्रिक sārvatrik, सर्वगत sarvagat
Portuguêsubíquo
Françaisubiquiste, ubiquitaire
Deutschallgegenwärtig, überall vorhanden
Italianoubiquitario
Ελληνικάπανταχού παρών pantachoú parón
Русскийвездесу́щий vezdesúščij

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@misc{ubiquitous_2026,
  title = {ubiquitous},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ubiquitous},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}