hyperlegible

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hyper- +‎ legible

Adjective[edit]

hyperlegible (comparative more hyperlegible, superlative most hyperlegible)

  1. Very easily legible.
    • 2008 March 16, Dan Chiasson, “Hot or Not”, in New York Times[1]:
      Ours is an era of plentiful but repetitive erotic writing, an age of “copper-lidded eyes” and “green eyes flecked with yellow,” of a “backbreaking orchid” and an “orchid boat,” of hyperlegible Freudian metaphor (silos and fountains, copper pipe and cowboy hats) and its counterpart, the forensic, literal overcorrection (aureoles, Formica countertops and AA batteries).