ultralow

adjective

ul·​tra·​low ˌəl-trə-ˈlō 

: extremely or extraordinarily low

ultralow interest rates

vehicles with ultralow emissions

Communicating with subs thousands of miles away, under thousands of feet of ocean, requires ultralow frequencies.

—Noah Shachtman

Examples of ultralow in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Japan’s central bank kept its ultralow interest rates while most of its peers have been raising rates aggressively. —Jacky Wong, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023

What is new is the sudden burst of inflation and the end of ultralow interest rates. —New York Times, 20 July 2022

More long term ultralow interest rate government bonds would mean more Silicon Valley Bank type crises as the value of those bonds imploded due to rising rates. —Jack Salmon, National Review, 7 Dec. 2023

That eliminates the need to freeze the deuterium and tritium at ultralow temperatures. —Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023

For more than a decade, ultralow interest rates let British homeowners hop carefree from one low rate to another. —Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022

The boom in private credit, a fast-growing $1.5 trillion corner of Wall Street born during an era of ultralow interest rates, is starting to show cracks. —Jodi Xu Klein, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2023

This isn’t typically the case with cash-out refinances these days, as many homeowners are locked into the ultralow mortgage rates of the pandemic days. —Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 11 Oct. 2023

At a time of ultralow yields and massive central bank bond buying, perhaps this made sense. —Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above