supermonstrously

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ monstrously

Adverb[edit]

supermonstrously (comparative more supermonstrously, superlative most supermonstrously)

  1. (rare) In a supermonstrous way.
    • 1916, Neophilologus: A Modern Language Quarterly[1], page 227:
      Something like "supermonstrously monstrous” would be an exact equivalent in form, as intensely ugly in meaning.
    • 1917, Henri Logeman, A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Norwegian Text of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt: Its Language, Literary Associations and Folklore[2], The Hague Martinus Nijhoff, page 112:
      Hence such an expression like something supermonstrously monstrous would be the nearest equivalent, however strange it may appear.
    • 2019 October 19, Sanmayce (username), “CRC for the win”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      If you already have at hand the C code for these supermonstrously vectorized etudes, please point it out.