minussed

comparative more minussed · superlative most minussed

1. humorousNonplussed.

   The public is not only nonplussed by rising prices but also minussed.

   1951 August 8, “Bypaths”, in Pathfinder, volume 58, number 16, Chicago, Ill.: Farm Journal, Inc., page 51

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   new synonym. / Overheard on the bus: “Weren’t you nonplussed by the market collapse?” / “I guess so. I was certainly minussed.”

   1930 June 20, Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LXXXIX, number 147, Chicago, Ill., page 12, column 2

   The bossman did an electrifying double take, hypoing his metabolism as the towering gent with the metallic shroud capared around the di[n]ing table. Van Valkenburg was nonplussed and completely minussed, to say the least, until informed of the ruse, and then displayed his sense of humor by shaking the hard hand of the men encased in the silvery habiliments.

   1954 November 10, “Moving Van—CBS-TV Prexy’s Double Take In Electronic Age”, in Variety, volume 196, number 10, New York, N.Y.: Variety, Inc., page 40

   “I am minussed”, said Alice as she stepped through the looking glass over the threshold of the 20th century. / “You mean to say you are nonplussed,” corrected the non-April hare.

   1972 December 24, Curtis L. Brown, “Prose on Parade: ‘I am minussed!’”, in View (Sunday Post-Crescent), Appleton, Wis.: Post-Corporation, page 15, column 1

   Throughout 1976, televised music was in the doldrums; not only becalmed, but in what the Oxford English Dictionary lucidly defines as ‘an intellectually nonplussed condition’. Yet, though nonplussed, it was not entirely minussed.

   1977, Keith Spence, “Television”, in Arthur Jacobs, editor, British Music Yearbook: A Survey and Directory with Statistics and Reference Articles for 1977-78, 5th edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Bowker, →ISBN, part two (Survey and Statistics), page 169

   The shared pin in Table 1 is coincidentally a result of the matrixing of the keyboard; all keys are shared, but you won’t need the rest. Chances are if you are compelled to poke around looking for the needed ones, though, you’ll find at least half the others first (in which case, if I didn’t forewarn you, you might be non-plussed—minussed, even—to discover all these funny coincidences yourself).

   1982 April, Ben Johnson, “Measure Ohms with Your Calculator? — yes, and accurately, too!”, in 73 Magazine for Radio Amateurs, Peterborough, N.H.: 73, Inc., →ISSN, page 30, column 2

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of minus