Meanings
comparative more super-duper · comparative super-duperer · superlative most super-duper · superlative super-duperest
- datedinformalVery excellent; truly great.
Near-synonym: super-superlative
2 more examples
Tell your friends who may be Cincinnati-bound about the super-duper Cincinnatian, B&O's latest and classiest train.
1947, Florence Marshall, Robert V. Schwartz, “Auditor Freight Traffic”, in B and O Magazine, volume 33, page 42Some markets are super. Our supermarket is super-duper.
1991, Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain, The Berenstain Bears at the Super-Duper Market, page 3Synonyms: super-superlative
- informalMajor, total, thorough.
Hello Kitty is having a Valentine's Day party for all her friends... But when Hello Kitty hurts her leg, all her plans are ruined! Will her party be a super-duper success or a super-duper disaster?
2006, Kris Hirschmann, Hello Kitty's Super-Duper Valentine's Day Party, page i
comparative more super-duper · superlative most super-duper
- informalVery; extremely.
But I'm super-duper hungry. Anybody have a candy bar in their pocket?
2007, MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Uneasy: A Queen Betsy Novel1 more example
No, you are entitled to your own opinion, alright? I'm the tart here. Cher, you've been nothing but super-duper nice to me.
1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Tai (Brittany Murphy)
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveVery excellent; truly great.
Origin
Rhyming reduplication, from super (1940).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French super, sensass
- supertruly great
- sensasstruly great
- génialtruly great
German superduper
- superdupertruly great
Hungarian hiper-szuper
- hiper-szupertruly great
Russian супер-пупер
- супер-пупер (súper-púper)truly great
Cite this entry
super-duper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/super-duper
“super-duper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/super-duper. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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